A senior criminal lawyer Rakesh Kumar Sinha of the civil court Daltonganj was duped by cyber criminals of Rs 2,92,333.82. Sinha became the third victim lawyer of the civil court Daltonganj. 

He lodged his complaint with the cyber police station in Daltonganj on Wednesday.  "I lost Rs 2,92,333.82 within 5 minutes and in 6 fraudulent withdrawals by the cyber scammers on November 25," he said.

"I have my account in the IDBI branch Daltonganj. Money was siphoned off from this account. The siphoned off money was shown as Amazon Pay Loan Repayment and debited to one Shifali Bibi," he said.

Sinha said "The 6 fraud withdrawals were made in two segments. In the first 2 attempts my 89,999 and 5, 000 rupees were siphoned off."

In the remaining 4 other attempts Rs 74,016 .82, 50,400, 66,680 and 6,238 of were surreptitiously debited from the lawyer's account. 

"When I was in my IDBI branch Daltonganj narrating to bank officials as to how my account here is being so siphoned off, right before the eyes of the IDBI branch officials there took place 2 withdrawals, the last one was Rs 6,238," he said.

"The IDBI branch officials later put my account on hold and thus I could save some money there in my account which could have been made a single digit cash account" said the lawyer. 

On being asked as to how he so fell in the trap Sinha said, "I was looking for some gynecologist number online for my wife. I got a number too. Thereupon I was asked to pay just Rs 5 for online number booking for the patient."

"I used my Phone Pe and tried to send 5 rupees. It didn't transact. Thereafter my account started bleeding" said the criminal lawyer. 

Officer in charge of the cyber police station Daltonganj Vishram Oraon said "Cybercrime is rising. It's time to be extremely cautious about it."

Oraon said "A minor mistake is proving a loss of a million. Cyber criminals are using every trick to make their targets poorer and poorer."