India, Dec. 22 -- A 59-year-old man from Hyderabad's Banjara Hills recently lost Rs.2.49 lakh to a courier delivery scam, highlighting how cybercriminals are increasingly using small, believable payment requests to trick unsuspecting victims into authorising large fraudulent transactions.

According to Hyderabad police, the victim was expecting a courier from DHL and had been following up on the delivery for nearly two days. On December 2, around 11.30 am, he received an SMS from an unknown mobile number claiming that two delivery attempts had failed. The message urged him to pay a nominal "re-delivery charge" of Rs.25 through a link provided in the text.

Believing the message to be genuine and assuming it was part of the delivery proces...