navi mumbai shilpa bhaskar a young working professional who also does animal welfare fell victim to the notorious mobile money transfer scam recently when she innocently tried to pay rs 10 online to conmen who promised to provide medical treatment to a dog in distress in new panvel a total of rs 5000 was debited from her bank account as soon as she had clicked on a link sent to her by the online trickstersshe has now given a written complaint to the khandeshwar police station in order to ensure further inquiry into the matteri had recently seen a dog with serious skin disease at new panvel and so was clicking its photograph in order to try and get some medical help for the dog just then i was approached by a bespectacled youth who told me that he has already contacted some animal rescue team so as to help this dog however he urged me to pay rs 10 as online registration fee since he did not have any money i agreed to pay rs 10 through the bhim upi money transfer mobile app after getting a link on my phone from the conmen but after some time i was shocked to see that rs 5000 had been debited from my bank account recalled bhaskarshe then quickly contacted her bank in order to stop any further financial loss just then i received another call from these very fraudsters who pretended to apologize to me for taking rs 5000 and asked me if i have any other bank account where they could deposit this amount through the online process when i told them that they can redirect this money to this same bank account they cut the call i dont want any more citizens especially animal lovers to become victims of this online fraud she saidthe honorary district animal welfare officer mitesh jain told toi this online scam was very rampant in mumbai last year wherein several animal ngos were looted of their funds apart from asking their victims to pay rs 10 for online registration the fraudsters also directly call animal welfare groups by pretending to be officials of justdial or google in order to get some basic detailsjain further added the karuna parivar trust ngo was also fleeced of rs 32000 by fraudsters who asked them to click on a link in order to update their contact details on popular internet sites once such unknown links are clicked they can be fleeced of large sums of money directly from their bank accounts we have also urged various animal welfare workers and ngos to be wary of such online scamsan official from the navi mumbai crime branch informed that they also get several cases of people being cheated online while trying to buy or sell things on various popular websites he added that the best way to ensure that you do not become a victim to such online frauds is to never click any strange link sent to your