A retired Executive Engineer of Sundargarh district lost about Rs 25.82 lakh from his bank account, after giving details of his ATM and Aadhar card to a caller on his cell phone, who identified himself as senior official of State Bank of India, Mumbai. Nayak filed a FIR in Bargaon police station on Saturday evening.
Sources said Shyam Sunder Nayak, after his retirement as Executive Engineer from Electrical department is residing at his native village Bargaon of Sundargarh district. Nayak reportedly had received a phone call in his mobile phone from an unknown caller on June 2, who had identified himself as a senior officials from SBI Mumbai office and managed to obtain vital information about his ATM, pass word etc by trick.
Although, Rs 25.82 lakh had been debited from his account in the process, Nayak had no idea about it. Only a couple of days back, Nayak had received another call from the same person, who asked the contact number of his nominee this time. Nayak had given his son Vicky Nayak’s contact number, who is presently working at Bangalore. But, Nayak had informed the entire development to his son over phone, who suspected some foul play and could come to know after checking the account that they had been duped.
“We are investigating in to the matter and since it is a cyber crime, we would take the support of cyber experts of our department,” Bargaon police station IIC BK Singh said.