An elderly couple of Bhawanipatan Sharma Colony has been duped of Rs 2.65 lakh after an unidentified caller asked them to follow certain procedures to win cash prizes. The victim Gangadhar Subudhi has lodged a complaint with the Bhawanipatna police and Cyber Cell at the SP office here in connection with the matter.
According to reports, the fraudster, claiming to be a customer care executive of a telecom firm, called up Subudhi and asked him that he was facing any problem with the telecom services. Later, to solve the problems faced by Subudhi, he asked for his personal details. Later, the fraudster said to Subudhi that he had won a mobile phone gift and a cash prize of Rs 20,000 for the New Year.Later, the fraudster swindled Rs 1,45 lakh from his bank accounts by obtaining the OTP from Subudhi. The fraudster even took away Rs 1,20,000 from his wife’s account.
Despite the banks sensitising customers repeatedly not to provide OTP numbers to any unknown person, the couple was duped.