Jaipur: A 51-year-old man lost around ₹4.4 lakh after allegedly clicking on a fake e-challan payment link sent to his mobile phone, police said.Sunil Kumar Tailor, a resident of Nangal Jaisa, lodged an FIR at Khorabisal police station under the IT Act Sunday.According to the police, Tailor had received a message about a traffic challan on Oct 21.“Expecting it to be a genuine message, he first enquired his son whether he had been issued a challan while he took the car out some days ago, but his son refused. However, traffic police had stopped his son that same day. This made the family assume that the link they received for e-challan could be genuine. Thus, Tailor clicked on the link to check the details and made the payment,” said Surindra Singh, SHO of Khora Bisal police station.On Oct 23 evening, Tailor was shocked to notice that around ₹4.10 lakh was withdrawn from his bank account. Another ₹30,000 was subsequently debited from his Bank of India credit card. “Initially, he approached the bank authorities and finally registered an FIR on Sunday,” Singh added.Police have registered an FIR and initiated a probe. They have also got the bank statement and statement of the credit card of the victim.‘
