Panchkula, Aug. 31 -- Two Panchkula residents were allegedly duped of more than Rs.21 lakh in separate cyber frauds involving a fake e-challan link and an online e-commerce business, the police said.

In the first case, a Sector 20 resident, Guneet Gaur, allegedly lost Rs.1.28 lakh after clicking a fraudulent e-challan link received on his mobile phone.

According to an FIR registered by the cyber crime police on August 29, Gaur received a message on August 27 claiming that his vehicle had an unpaid Rs.1,000 e-challan. The link took him to a fake website, where he entered his details and subsequently received multiple one time passwords (OTPs). After sharing the OTPs, Rs.1,28,852 was debited from his credit card. He reported the fraud thr...