Srinagar- A daily wage labourer currently attending to a family member at SKIMS Soura hospital was allegedly deceived by a scammer.
The incident allegedly occurred when a stranger approached the attendee, claiming that his father had suffered a heart attack and was in the ICU. The scammer pleaded for urgent financial assistance, asking the attendee to lend him ₹3,000.
The attendee, a daily wage labourer, recounted the incident: “The scammer told me that he needed the money urgently and promised to repay me immediately. He even gave me his ATM card as collateral and asked me to wait near the OPD for 10 minutes.”
However, when the attendee waited for two hours, the scammer never returned. A search of the hospital premises, including the ICU, yielded no results.
The attendee said he has meager daily income of ₹500, was left devastated by the loss. “We are very poor, and the ₹3,000 that was taken from me is a significant amount for my family. I have two sons and two daughters to support.they all are yet at student”, the attendee added.
The attendee’s uncle is currently undergoing treatment at the hospital for high blood pressure and partial paralysis. The family has been at the hospital for the past three days, struggling to make ends meet.
The attendee urged people to be cautious and not trust strangers easily.
“I was always a kind person, but today I felt that being too kind and innocent in today’s age is not right, he said”.
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