Bengaluru: Tricked by cyber criminals, a 30-year-old software engineer was robbed of Rs 1.2 lakh during online banking after her card got skimmed recently. The thieves made transactions in two quick successions from the victim’s salary account.
The incident took place on February 1 when the victim, identified as Megha an employee with Infosys, was returning from her home town Kundapura along with her husband. In her police complaint Megha said that she received the withdraw message on February 1 from her debit card. As the withdrawal limit was up to Rs 60,000, the accused withdrew the amount in two quick successions within five minutes. While the first transaction was made at around 11.58 pm, the second was made at 12.02 am, thus making the withdrawals of Rs 60,000 each for two days, said the police.
The police said, “On January 31, Megha with her husband, who works as software engineer in TCS, were returning to Bengaluru by bus. As she was fast asleep she did not notice the two messages. Megha came to know about it early morning after arriving in Bengaluru. She then rushed to the local police station, from where she was directed to approach cyber crime police station.”
Bengaluru region Cyber Crime police said, “We have taken up the case and investigations are on. The amount was withdrawn from her salary account in ICICI bank. We questioned Megha about using her debit card in any places for shopping or for buying online goods. But she told that she hasn’t used it anywhere. We suspect Megha’s debit card was skimmed.”
