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The woman then got suspicious and closed the applications, after which she received notifications from her bank about four withdrawals amounting Rs 30,000, the report added. She immediately contacted her bank and stopped the transactions. She then contacted BSPCA and shared her experience with them and the secretary Lt Colonel JC Khanna told her that they have received several complaints of being cheated in a similar way.

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The lawyer then filed a complaint with the Cuffe Parade police, but they are yet to register an FIR. Meanwhile, BSPCA filed a complaint with Kalachowkie police station about people’s complaints of losing money after calling a number listed on the BSPCA's website. The BSPCA told police that people were trying to transfer money to donate for animal care or to pay for cremating animals, the report said.

Khanna also told them that he had contacted Google to report the fraud and remove the number from the organisation’s list on its website. He alleged that the culprits had also promised people jobs in BSPCA’s Bai Sakarbai Dinshaw Petit Hospital for Animals where they had asked people to pay for their registration, uniform, and interviews, the report said.

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