Early on August 15, Monday actor Nargis Fakhri lost Rs. 6 Lakh in 14 transactions, when her credit card was used in the United States in a case of online fraud early The star of films like ‘Rockstar’, ‘Madras Cafe’ and ‘Azhar’, Nargis, is a US citizen and was in Mumbai at the time of the incident. The fraudulent transactions took place in a four-and-half hour period, with the first one carried out at 3:55 am and the last one at 8:22 am. Nargis got her card blocked and lodged a complaint with the Juhu police station on Tuesday. “I came across the fraud on my card only when I scanned through the text messages late on Monday and saw the transactions in the US made against shopping payment, her complaint read. The bank did not call to alert about the transactions. The card details were used to withdraw money and not for shopping, a police inspector said. He also added that they will ask details about the incident from the bank in question, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and conduct a probe into why they did not react and block the transactions immediately. Nargis’ card details may have been stolen to clone her card, investigators suspect. IPC sections 419 (impersonation), 420 (cheating) and under sections 66 (c) (identity theft) and 66 (d) (cheating by personation by using computer) of the IT Act have been applied against the unidentified fraudsters.
