Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)
Cyber crooks target city based doctor and two software engineer and made away with Rs.63.2 lakh in separate incidents in a fedex courier scam which is giving the cyber crime police sleepless nights.
Dr.Kavitha Bhat,resident of Koramangala in her complaint to Southeast Cyber Crime Police on Thursday,received a call from unknown person claiming to be executive of fedex courier company and informed her that there was a parcel in her name containing banned items.
Before Dr.Bhat could tried to reason,the caller asked her to download Skype App for further conversation telling her that there are around 36 bank accounts found in her name.
Shocked Dr.Kavitha tried to deny the allegation for which the caller on the pretext of cross checking her bank accounts availed the details and withdraw Rs.7.6 lakh.
The fraud came to light when Dr.Kavitha started getting messages of online transactions and tried to contact the person in vain.
Similarly,Kishore Kumar BG,48,resident of Begur complained to Southeast police on Friday that he was cheated by conman with Rs.29.6 lakh posing as fedex courier company.
The caller told him that there was a parcel to Taiwan from Mumbai in his name which contained banned items.
The caller also informed him that his Aadhar details are being misused by terror suspects and obtained bank account details for verification.
Before Mr.Kumar could realize the accused had transferred all the saving from his bank account and went incommunicado.
The accused even cheated Ajay Miyan,48,software engineer from Devarabisanahalli had earlier cheated in similar fashion on Wednesday .
Mr.Ajay told the whitefield cyber crime police the caller initially introduced himself as executive from Fedex and later his associate called him to claim he is police officer from Mumbai crime branch to narrate the same story on parcel with banned items to Taiwan and accused him of money laundering .
The accused took the details of his bank accounts on the pretext of verification and transferred a total of Rs. 26.2 lakh.
“Its natural for any person to get panicked When they get such calls accusing of money laundering and illegal parcel .
However people should stay calm and not share any personal details as no officer wither from bank or from police authorised to seek personal details that too over the phone”,a senior police officer part of the investigation, said .
Moreover there are awareness campaigns on social media about courier scam alerting people not to fall prey to such calls,he added.
On Friday City police commissioner,B.Dayananda set up a Special Task force led by a DCP rank officer to probe the growing number of cases related to fedex courier scams in the city .
