Meerut, May 19 -- Cyber fraudsters in Bareilly district duped a man of more than Rs.5.41 lakh by sending a malicious wedding invitation card in PDF format on WhatsApp, exposing yet another sophisticated online scam targeting mobile users.

The victim, Nitin Gupta, a resident of Dunka area in Shahi, lodged a complaint at the Cyber Crime Police Station on May 18 after discovering that money had been siphoned off from his bank account days after he opened the suspicious file.

According to the complaint submitted to inspector KB Singh, Gupta said that he received a WhatsApp message on April 22 from an unknown person identifying himself as Sajid. The sender had shared what appeared to be a wedding invitation card in PDF format. Believing it t...