PUNE: A 47-year-old resident of Chikhali Pradhikaran was duped of Rs 13.4 lakh in a cellphone SIM swap online fraud<\/a>.
The cybercrook not only siphoned Rs 3 lakh from the man’s bank account but also managed to obtain a pre-approved personal loan<\/a> of Rs 10.4 lakh from his bank. The fraud occurred between May 6 and 7. The man had approached the bank and filed a complaint. On Saturday, he lodged an FIR with the Chikhali police.
PUNE: A 47-year-old resident of Chikhali Pradhikaran was duped of Rs 13.4 lakh in a cellphone SIM swap online fraud<\/a>.
The cybercrook not only siphoned Rs 3 lakh from the man’s bank account but also managed to obtain a pre-approved personal loan<\/a> of Rs 10.4 lakh from his bank. The fraud occurred between May 6 and 7. The man had approached the bank and filed a complaint. On Saturday, he lodged an FIR with the Chikhali police.
Senior inspector of the Chikhali police Satish Mane told TOI that on May 6, the complainant<\/a> received a call from a man claiming to be an executive of a telecom company<\/a> from Uttar Pradesh. The caller told the complainant<\/a> that the latter was using 3G SIM card and if he did not upgrade it to 4G, his card will be blocked. “The caller then took details from him and sent him a 19-digit number and requested him to forward the number to the telecom company<\/a>’s service number,” Mane said.
He said that the complainant’s then received a message from the company that his SIM card will be deactivated during the upgrading process and will be activated on June 7 at 3pm. “When his SIM card did not activate on June 7, the complainant contacted the ‘executive’, who told him that the card will be activated within an hour,” Mane said.
The complainant, however, became suspicious, and tried to operate net banking, but failed. “He then contacted his bank was told that someone had obtained a loan of Rs 10.4 lakh from the bank in his name,” Mane added.
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