Online shopping has come in handy for the online fraudsters
to cheat the gullible people.
The incidents of online frauds are on the rise in
the district. The fraudsters are cheating the gullible people having ATM cards
by calling the people posing themselves as bank staff and wanted to clarify
their pin number once.
Fraudsters are purchasing various products through
online shopping at various prominent sites using the money available in the
bank accounts with the ATM in numbers collected by cheating the bank account
holders.
There was no mechanism to cross check whether the
account holder who was paying money for his shopping was genuine card holder or
not.
Unknown persons calling the bank account holders by introducing
themselves as ATM servicemen and asking to renew their ATM otherwise it will be
blocked soon due to technical problems and asking the details about their
Aadhar card and ATM number to renew ATM card.
ATM account
holders were asked to tell the number mentioned in the message they will receive
and the amount in the bank account will be deducted and victim will receive
message to this effect from the bank within no time.
Card holders will realize that they were cheated
only on seeing the message they received from the bank stating that he or she
was successfully purchased the items or products with the online payment using
their ATM.
Vemula Rajaguruvaiah of Itikyala village in
Luxettipet mandal was cheated for Rs 22,999 from his SBH bank account of
Luxettipet lodged a complaint with the local police stating that an unknown
person who collected details of his bank ATM card had purchased one item from
online shopping site ‘Flipkart’.
‘One unknown person called with the phone number
9507206057 and introduced himself as Rahul Sharma who spoke in Hindi and asked
him to renew ATM card on August18 and cheated me’, Rajaguruvaiah lamented.
One can find posters pasted in the RTC buses and
stations offering online ‘relief’ services to the people those were facing problems.
One woman of Mancherial was cheated for huge money in the name of offering
relief to her family problems few months ago by online Baba.
Unknown persons have been calling the people saying
that they were selected for a lottery or gold and asking the bank details to
deposit on their names or send them to their addresses. Sometimes, asking to
deposit some money to get the money or gold they got in the lottery.
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