Bengaluru: A series of fraudulent withdrawals of money from bank accounts of about 10 people on Saturday night and Sunday morning has put cyber crime police on their toes as cyber cheats operated from unknown places in different states and countries. The total withdrawn amount is around Rs 6 lakh.
While a few victims couldn’t sleep on Saturday night, the rest woke up to the shock on Sunday morning. They rushed to the cyber crime police station with the debit message they received on their mobiles to lodge complaints. Interestingly, most of the victims are software engineers.
Majority of the withdrawals were done online, while one was through a cloned credit card. The victims are from Hennur, HBR Layout, R.T. Nagar, Hulimavu, Kothanur and Bannerghatta.
James Sundar Ram, a resident of Hulimavu, was shocked after receiving a debit message on his mobile on Saturday that Rs 40,000 had been transferred from his account. The police said that the transaction was done by cyber frauds in other states.
One of the victims Pushparani, a software engineer, received similar message. Skimmers had cloned her credit card and had withdrawn Rs 30,000 in the early hours of Sunday. The transactions were done at an ATM in Kammanahalli.
It is learnt that few of the transactions were done from foreign servers. The cyber crime police have registered the complaints and are investigating.
