Hyderabad, Aug. 12 -- A 75-year-old retired Reserve Bank of India (RBI) employee from Ameerpet lost Rs 3.50 lakh in a fake Election Commission of India (ECI) voter verification process.

The victim, Vishnu Mohan Venna, approached the Hyderabad cybercrime police and filed a complaint on Tuesday, August 11.

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According to the complaint, Mohan received an SMS four days earlier asking him to share a photograph of his voter ID card through a WhatsApp number.

Mohan sent a photograph of his voter ID through WhatsApp, believing it was related to voter verification.

Later, he received a WhatsApp call from a person who claimed that his name did not match his father's name.

He received another message containin...