Woman loses Rs 1 lakh to e-wallet scam

A woman in Delhi has lost all her savings close to Rs 1 lakh to an e-wallet fraud. According to a report in the Times of India, the woman who works with a private company, made a call to her respective e-wallet firm after some amount was wrongfully deducted from her account. 

According to the report, the woman searched for the customer-care number on the internet. "Some amount had been wrongly deducted from my e-wallet, following which I started looking for the customer care number provided on a website and the man introduced himself as the representative," she said. 

The woman then gave her card details over the phone to a man, posing to be customer care executive. And just after the call, her bank account was drained of money. 

The report stated that the number on which she called is still working. Th ecase has been registerd at Seemapuri police station. 

The inter-connectivity of social media and E-wallets for banking on mobile has become the perfect hunting ground for cyber crime. In the cashless society, the fraudsters are coming up with several new modus operandi/tricks to dupe victims and to be untraceable. The recent one is phishing callers using E-wallets to siphon money, The Mumbai police have received several complaints recently wherein the victim gets a call from the fraudsters and after hacking into E-wallet money, siphons the money.

In one of such complaint registered in the Sahar Police Station, a 21-year-old youth lost Rs 20,000 from his bank account. This time the fraudster used E-wallet to siphon the money as the wallet was linked with the bank hence the fraudster hacked the E-wallet.

The investigators say the modus operandi of fraudsters has changed a bit as they use mobile wallets to transfer the stolen money instead of directly transferring it as it helps them confuse the authorities and be untraceable.