Actress Mahek Chahal lost Rs. 49,000 from her foreign bank account in a courier fraud. The Norwegian model and actress of Indian origin wanted to send a parcel and was, therefore, trying to send it through a courier company. The fake courier company stole her bank details while she entered them on its website for booking the parcel to Gurgaon on July 12.
The police have filed an FIR against an unknown person for impersonation and cheating as he had stolen Mahek’s UPI transaction ID number to siphon off money from her bank account.