A Thane based businessman fell into the trap of an online fraudster. A cyber criminal called up the victim and cajoled him into sharing his ATM card details, and within the span of 19 hours, did 32 transactions worth one lakh rupees. The case is being investigated by Cuffe Parade police.
A Thane based businessman fell into the trap of an online fraudster. A cyber criminal called up the victim and cajoled him into sharing his ATM card details, and within the span of 19 hours, did 32 transactions worth one lakh rupees. The case is being investigated by Cuffe Parade police.
According to the police, 29-year old Shyamnarayan Yadav, a businessman, is a resident of Kalva in Thane. Yadav has an account in a nationalised bank, which has its branch at Cuffe Parade.
On February 6, this year, at 11.30 am, Yadav received a phone call from an unknown mobile number. "As per Yadav, the caller claimed to be the bank manager, and informed him that his card was closed, and got an unsuspecting Yadav to share his bank details, in order to renew the card. The caller then told Yadav that he would be handed his new card soon, and disconnected the call," said an officer from Cuffe Parade police station.
According to the police, following the phone call, Yadav began receiving alert messages from the bank informing him of the transactions done from his ATM card.
"Initially, Yadav thought those were false messages and did not pay any attention, but he kept getting the same messages over the next few hours. He then panicked and made a call to the bank," added the officer.
The bank officials informed Yadav that 32 online transactions had been done from his ATM card within the span of 19 hours, between February 6 and 7. Most of the transactions were made for doing online shopping and paying mobile recharges.
Yadav then visited the bank, which is when he was told that the manager had never called him, and that his card had been closed. He then filed an application to the police on February 10, to investigate the matter.
Based on his application, a preliminary inquiry was conducted and a complaint was lodged on April 8 against an unknown person under IPC Sections 419 (impersonation) and 420 (cheating), and sections 66C (whoever fraudulently or dishonestly makes use of electronic signature, password or any other unique identification feature of any other person) and 66D (whoever by means of any communication device or computer resource cheats by impersonation) of the Information Technology Act.
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