An Israeli national whose brother-in-law’s medical device had accidentally been left behind in an Ola cab was duped of Rs 49,000 after she called a bogus helpline number hoping to contact the cab aggregator on Thursday. The Dahisar police, however, not only managed to recover the machine but also the money she had paid to the fraudsters in about an hour.

According to the police, the complainant, Esther Daniel Benjamin, 59, was staying at Panvel with her husband, sister Seema Samson and her brother-in-law Norman Samson. The four had come from Israel to visit their family. Norman, a retired army officer, uses a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine at night as he suffers from sleep apnea.