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A 69-year-old antheral was duped of ₹42,000 aft a alien allegedly swapped his ATM paper for a dummy paper astatine a kiosk successful Perambur connected Wednesday morning.
The incidental took spot erstwhile the victim, Rajendran, a retired CMDA worker of Perambur, visited an ATM connected Paper Mills Road to retreat cash. According to the police, an unidentified man inside the kiosk offered him assistance to run the machine.
The fishy allegedly said the transaction had failed and returned the ATM paper to Rajendran earlier leaving the premises. Rajendran returned location unaware that the fishy had taken his archetypal card.
A fewer minutes later, helium received mobile telephone alerts indicating that ₹42,000 had been withdrawn from his slope relationship done 4 abstracted transactions.
On verifying the card, helium discovered that it was fake and that his paper had been stolen.
Based connected a ailment lodged by Rajendran, the Sembium constabulary registered a lawsuit and launched an investigation. The constabulary are examining the CCTV footage of the ATM centre to hint the suspect.
