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Bengaluru: In Karnataka’s capital Bengaluru, cyber thugs (cyber thugs) have adopted a new method and cheated a 43-year-old woman of Rs 1 lakh. As for the victim, the swindler introduced himself as a close friend of her father and asked her to send money to his phone-pay app wallet. The surprising thing is that the swindler neither sent any OTP to the woman nor any link to click.
The woman, a resident of Hebbal, Karnataka and a teacher by profession, has also accused the police of negligence. She told that she had gone to Sadashivnagar police station to lodge a complaint less than an hour after the money was stolen from the account, but the police did not file the complaint saying that they were busy in the security duties of the Governor and the Chief Minister. He also alleged that the policemen present at the station were not able to speak or understand any language other than Kannada.
The victim woman told that between 4.45 and 5 pm on Wednesday evening, the swindler stole Rs 1 lakh from her digital wallet by telling her her father’s name. He neither clicked on any link nor did he receive any OTP. A senior police officer said that he has seen some such cases. It seems that this is a new trend in cyber crime. Cyber crime experts said that text messages are encrypted with a code that allows fraudsters to steal people’s money.
The woman told that, ‘She was returning home from work in the evening. Then he got a call from an unknown number. The caller spoke to him in Hindi and introduced himself as a chartered accountant. He said that he is my father’s friend.’ He further said that my father has asked him to send some money to my account and asked for my UPI ID.
The woman further said, ‘When I gave him the UPI ID, he sent a normal message on my phone and told me that he had sent it to my wallet and asked me to check the money. I followed his instructions but neither told him any OTP nor clicked on any link, but still Rs 25 thousand were deducted from my account twice and Rs 50 thousand once.
The victim woman told that he was repeatedly addressing me as ‘son-son’. But when he insisted on clicking on the message I suspected something was wrong, however I disconnected the phone and came home and asked father about it, but father said why would he ask someone to send me money?
The woman further told that even after the money was deducted, the swindler had called her 22 times and he also asked to return the money. Even when she was in the police station, she had called. He told that I and my brother repeatedly requested the police to freeze or block the swindler’s bank account, but they deliberately kept delaying.
The woman told that the police called her on Friday and told that they are sending an email to the bank to freeze the account of the miscreant. DCP (Central) Shekhar H Tekkannavar said he would look into the complaint of apathy against the police.
