The cyber cell of Madhya Pradesh police has helped to recover Rs 55,000 duped from two persons of Gwalior; cash was recovered from Paytm payment gateway.
In the first incident, the victim Vijay Kumar of Shivpuri in Gwalior received a phone call on January 19 this year from an unidentified mobile number. The caller posed as bank official who informed the victim that his ATM card requires to be renewed and if the ATM card is not renewed it would get blocked and bank account balance would reduce to zero. The caller told the victim to provide OTP within two seconds otherwise time out would occur and card renewal would not be done. Fearing the consequences provided by the caller victim provided the OTP code and details of ATM card and password which were used by the caller and Rs 9751 were withdrawn from SBI bank account of the victim.
The victim came to know about the incident after receiving message of withdrawal of money. A complaint was lodged with the cyber cell police by the victim. Another incident of same nature of fraud was reported by Radha Solanki of Koteshwar Colony Gwalior received call and was duped to the tune of Rs 45000.After receiving the call and providing details of the ATM card Rs 45000 was used for shopping online in 2-3 parts. A complaint was lodged with the cyber cell police.