An IT professional belonging to Sambalpur district has been duped of Rs 5 lakh by a cybercriminal while he was searching for the customer care number of a bank in search engine Google.
Sanjib Kumar Padhi, who is employed in New Delhi, is now working from home here due to the Covid pandemic. A few days back, he had problem in operating his account in the ICICI Bank from his mobile.
Hence, he searched for the customer care number of the bank in Google. And a number came from Google search, to which Padhi called up to solve his problem. But to his misfortune, it was a number of the cyber fraudster, who impersonated himself as the bank’s customer care representative.
And as per the criminal’s instruction, Padhi installed an App –‘Anydesk application’ in his mobile, which enabled the fraudster to know the OTP and other details sent to Padhi from the bank including from his other accounts.
By the time Padhi knew that he was cheated, the fraudster had already withdrawn Rs 5 lakh from his bank accounts. Following this, he lodged a complaint at the cyber police station.