In another case of fraud, a 25-year-old Mumbai woman was duped of over Rs 4.8 lakhs after he received a call from a person who impersonated a Mumbai Cyber police official.
The victim, who is a resident of Powai and an employee of a multinational company received a call from a fraudster claiming to be a Mumbai cyber police personnel and told that her Aadhaar Card had been misused to open three bank accounts.
According to a TOI report, the incident took place on October 5 when the victim got a call from a person who identified himself as an official from the parcel department of a courier company.
Powai police lodged the complaint on November 13 and said that the victim received a call from the fraudster relating to the misuse of her Adhar Card.
The accused also managed to get her net banking credentials on the pretext of verifying her savings account details and asked her to click on the ‘instant loan’ option before making her transfer money.
“The cyber section of the police station has sought details from the bank to which the money got credited. This time the fraudster executed a new modus operandi where they had made the victim follow their instruction of clicking on instant loan and opening a beneficiary account to which the money was transferred after warning her of illegal activities carried out using her Aadhaar card to open three bank accounts,” the publication quoted Powai police as saying.
The fraudster then called her up saying there was a parcel in her name from Taiwan which was under the radar of the Mumbai Cyber Crime police.
The fraudster then asked the victim to come on a video call when the person on screen asked her to share her Aadhaar details to verify details for the investigation.
“I was asked to log into my online banking account. I was told to click on the instant loan option and Rs3 lakh got credited to my account. Then I was asked to create a beneficiary account. He made it to transfer Rs 3 lakhs along with Rs1.83 lakh savings in my account,” the report quoted.
The woman suspected something when the fraudster once again asked her to share details of her second bank account and tried to make her follow the same instructions and transfer.
The victim then disconnected the call and contacted Powai police about the incident. A probe is underway into the matter.
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