Gayatri Fernando, Assistant Director of Information Technology of the Postal Department stated that money was collected from people by prompting them that a parcel was to be delivered.

Information about such incidents can be reported to the hotline number 1950.

Apart from that, the information can be provided through the telephone numbers:

011 2 542 104,011 2 334 728, 011 2 235 978

Gayatri Fernando said that an investigation is underway by the Police Computer Crime Division regarding the related incident