A woman of Sundargarh district was duped of Rs 35,000 in an ATM counter by a miscreant who managed to collect her password by deceit.
The victim lodged a FIR in Rajgangpur police station and police were investigating the matter.
Mamata Maharana, a resident of daily market area of Rajgangpur, had gone to withdraw money from ATM counter in the daily market area at Rajgangpur on Friday last. While she had inserted her card in the ATM, she found the machine stayed hanged. At this point of time, another person who had waited outside ATM room, came inside. Mamata told him to wait as she had found some problem in the ATM. The man showed keenness to help her and asked to press some keys on the ATM to press her password. But after trying when Mamata did not get the money from the ATM, she left the booth. But after Mamata left, the miscreant allegedly withdrew Rs 35,000 from the ATM.
10 minutes, when Mamata again came to the ATM counter, to her shock she found in the mini statement that Rs 35,000 had been withdrawn from her account minutes ago.
“We will examine the CCTV footage of the ATM to identify the miscreant,” said Rajgangpur IIC PK Jena.