Cyber criminals have siphoned off ` 1,97,500 from the bank account of former Justice of Jharkhand High Court Poonam Srivatava after getting her ATM card details.
Justice (Retd) Srivatsva has registered an FIR with the Allahabad Cantonment Police Station stating that a man called her up from Ranchi and informed that KYC of her bank account at Ranchi was not available. He asked Justice Srivastava to collect her new ATM card as well.
The cyber criminals also mentioned the first and last two digits of her ATM card which reassured the Justice that he was authentic. Subsequently he secured the ATM details of her saving account in Allahabad from the Justice.
After a while he called Justice Srivatava again and asked her to inform him of the OTP numbers that would start coming on her mobile phone.
In her FIR, she stated amounts of ` 49,000, ` 49,000, ` 51,500, ` 24,000 and ` 24,000 was withdrawn from her account as she informed the caller about the OTP numbers one by one. She said that phone number is registered in the name of AK Mahto in Ranchi.
Cyber DSP Sumit Prasad said that normally the cyber station get the request for action from the police of other States when cyber criminal from Jharkhand commit crime.