A 47-year-old homemaker from Dadar, who only wanted to sell her daughter’s old books online, allegedly ended up losing nearly Rs 1.55 lakh to cyber fraudsters using the notorious “QR code trick.”

According to the police, the gang targeted her after she uploaded an advertisement on OLX on September 2 to sell her daughter’s old books, valued at Rs 13,800. Soon after, she received a call from a man claiming to be “Jaykishan Book Store,” who said he wanted to buy all the books.