A 25-year-old IIT student lost Rs 27,000 in a Unified Payments Interface fraud after she sought a refund for bad pizza and called up the customer care number of a food delivery platform.

Seecha Vajpayee was dissatisfied with the quality of the pizza and she looked up for the customer care number online. The call did not go through, but she got a call back and did as the person advised, following which three transactions on UPI took away Rs 27000. The Powai police probed the case which was registered on November 3 and found that the customer car number had been hacked by the fraudster and replaced by one which used to dupe people.