A woman from Raghunathpur area was cheated by a miscreant who after taking two bank account numbers and ATM pin numbers withdrew Rs 18, 000 from the her accounts.
An unknown caller had on Wednesday called the victim Nirupama Sahoo asking her to give her bank account number, including ATM pin number, for sending KALIA financial assistance.
The woman relied on the caller and informed the bank account number and pin number.
The miscreant again asked the woman to send another bank account number on the plea that the bank account was inoperative. The victim again sent another bank account number including ATM pin number and waited for a reply from the unknown caller.
However, after waiting for a long time, when she did not get any response from the caller, she dialed on the caller’s mobile number but found it to be switched off.
And, when the victim woman on Wednesday inspected her bank account running in Utarkul SBI branch, she found that Rs 13,000 had been drawn. Simultaneously, Rs 5,000 had been withdrawn from her Gramya Bank account.
She lodged an FIR at the Raghunathpur police station. The police said an investigation was on.