Bihar: Cyber fraudster siphons off Rs 8.93 lakh from railway guard’s account | Patna News
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PATNA: An Indian Railway’s express train guard lost Rs 8.93 lakh from his saving bank account with State Bank of India’s Sinchai Bhawan branch in state capital on Saturday after cyber fraudster made him share OTPs on call by gaining confidence by posing as staff of divisional railway manager (DRM) office.
Surprisingly, fraud call was received on May 5 when OTPs were shared but money was transacted from guard’s bank account next day and he didn’t even received any SMS alert on his cellphone about any transaction.
The victim Arun Kumar is posted at Patna railway junction and lives at RK Puram near Saguna Mor under Danapur police station area. An FIR was by Kumar in connection with Secretariat police station on Saturday evening.
SHO (in-charge) Sanjay Paswan said conman had called on Kumar’s cellphone by posing as staff of DRM office due to which he talked with him. “Investigation were going in connection with the incident,” he said.
Kumar’s son Rahul Kumar, who is also an employee in Canara Bank, said conman even knew his father’s retirement age and talk with him for 40 minutes in lieu of project on shifting his records and data on digital to manual platform for retirement purpose.
“The cyber fraud remained on call for around 40 minutes. My father is not tech-savvy. He was made to delete OTP SMSs back to back. After disconnecting call, he informed me and rushed to SBI branch near Saguna Mor for seeking help,” he said.
The son said debit card was blocked within few minutes of disconnecting conmen’s call but surprisingly transactions took place next day. “Altogether 23 transactions took place and on SMS alert were received against them. We have already alerted cyber cell,” he said.
In another incident, a student Himanshu Shekhar living at East Indira Nagar in Kankarbagh was duped of Rs 13000 on May 5 after he transacted money into Google-pay account of a person as advance for booking a flat for rent which was advertised on an e-commerce website. Shekhar said advertiser stopped picking his calls after transaction following which he made online complaint for getting an FIR registered.
A cellphone shop owner at Boring Road, preferring anonymity said he fell victim to cyber fraud even without sharing details of debit card or bank account. “Money was transacted using my debit card in San Francisco. I complained my branch. They agreed to reimburse money after which I didn’t approached police,” he added.
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