Yogesh K Porwar & Sunil Lohan
A city based private firm employee lost Rs.3.7 lakh after he responded to a ransom number and tried to update his KYC details online on Wednesday .
Based on the complaint, the central division cyber crime police registered an FIR against unknown person charging him under cheating and also under IT Act.
The victim,R Ravindra,resident of Viveknagar in his complaint on Friday said that he had received a call from unknown person claiming to be bank executive asking him to update his KYC.
The caller also shared a link asking Ravindra to share his Aadhar and mobile phone number .
Ravindra followed the instruction and found his whatsapp has been blocked for few minutes.Few minutes later he received a call from different number informing him that the whatsapp is unblocked.
Confused Ravindra checked his messages to find two bank transaction for deduction of Rs.3,70,100 from two of his saving bank accounts .
Similar incident occurred to Gaurav Shah,a businessman from Kumara park east on Monday and the caller identified himself as staff from the postal department .
The caller according to Mr.Shah informed that a parcel has been received in his name and undelivered due to incomplete address .
He shared a link asking Mr.Shah to fill the address and bank account details .
Trusting him Mr.Shah followed the instruction and filled the form with required details.Within few minutes a total of Rs.35,730 has been transferred from his private bank credit card .
The police have advised people not to share personal details online nor entertain any callers seeking details of bank accounts or personal details .