Hazaribagh police has registered a case of illegal withdrawal of money from the account of a local doctor by the cyber criminals operating from Mumbai. Dr Abhay Kumar, a resident of Balrampur, presently posted at Hazaribagh has filed a complaint to Hazaribagh police that someone is regularly withdrawing money from his account since last two days.
Dr. Abhay Kumar said that when message of withdrawal of Rs 13,000 first came on his mobile, he took it as a mistake of bank. Next day when another message came of withdrawal of Rs 30,000, he rushed to the bank to enquir about the transactions. Initially the bank officials were not in a mood to accept his story but after his repeated request the branch manager gone through the details of his account and said that the amounts have been transferred through internet and the whole exercise is going on from Mumbai.
When police started enquiry, Doctor said that a few days ago a phone call has come. The caller introduced himself as an officer of Reserve Bank of India and asked the details of his ATM card. When the victim asked that why these information are needed, he replied that the time of your card is going to end and for renewal these information are necessary. Dr. Abhay Kumar said that since many patients were in queue so he gave the information including the card number. Police has registered this case and now with the help of its cyber expert team hopes to nab the culprits very soon. The OIC said that till date we have solved many ATM frauds and loot cases but this case is different and we have taken it as a challenge. Now it will be interesting to see how the police cracks this case of cyber crime and nabs the IT expert criminals of this new generation.