New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- Top Sandalwood star Upendra Rao and his wife Priyanka Upendra have fallen victims to a cybercrime in which perpetrators hacked their phones and sent messages to several of their associates seeking money on the couple's behalf.

The fraudsters first targetted Priyanka, who had made an online purchase from an e-commerce platform based out of Dubai and was expecting delivery of the same.

She received a phone call at around 10 am on Tuesday morning, where the caller identified himself as an executive of said company and told her that the delivery partner was having trouble tracing her address.

Following this, the caller asked Priyanka to dial a code (*2*9279295167#) using her phone. As soon as she dialled this code, P...