Hyderabad: A city-based private employee lost about Rs 1.5 lakh to cyber fraudsters after sharing his debit card details and OTPs with strangers who claimed to be calling from a private finance company to collect pending dues.
The victim, Praveen Kumar, 36, (name changed), received a call from a stranger impersonating himself as a customer care official who was calling to remind him about his pending EMIs. Under the pretext of procedures, the stranger asked him to share his debit card details first and then his OTPs, and the victim shared both with him. Following the phone call, the victim received a message from his bank stating that Rs 1,00,000 had been debited from his account.
The following day, another Rs 50,000 was debited from the account. That is when he approached the Rachakonda Cybercrime police and lodged a complaint.
A case was registered under the relevant sections of the IPC and IT act. The police said they were trying to identify the bank accounts to which the money was being transferred in order to nab the accused.
