The police mentioned that message additionally contained a hyperlink together with a buyer ID which the sender wished him to click on. (Representative picture)
The sufferer obtained an OTP which he fed into the system and inside seconds Rs 49,983 have been debited from his checking account.
A 63-yr-previous man from Maharashtra’s Thane metropolis misplaced almost Rs 50,000 after being lured into redeeming reward factors within the identify of a financial institution.
According to a report by information company PTI, the police on Monday mentioned that the sufferer, who earlier labored with a enterprise consultancy agency in Navi Mumbai, obtained a message on August 18 purportedly from a financial institution the place he had an account, stating his reward factors value Rs 5,899 have been expiring that day.
Fraud story
The police added that message additionally contained a hyperlink together with a buyer ID which the sender wished him to click on.
Since the ID given within the message was the identical as his buyer ID with the financial institution, the sufferer believed it to be real.
OTP issue
After clicking on the hyperlink and following the directions, the sufferer obtained an OTP which he fed into the system and inside seconds Rs 49,983 have been debited from his checking account, the official mentioned.
As he had not accomplished any transaction of the debited quantity, he rushed to the financial institution and discovered the cash was transferred to a different checking account.
The man approached the police on Saturday with a criticism primarily based on which a case was registered in opposition to an unidentified particular person underneath related provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology Act, the official added.
(With PTI inputs)
