Uttar Pradesh: The biggest cyber fraud in Varanasi, fraud of Rs 3.5 crore from a retired teacher, two teams will investigate
Cyber fraudsters defrauded a retired teacher of St. John’s Madauli in Varanasi to the tune of Rs 3 crore 55 lakh by threatening her with arrest. Cyber fraudsters wiped out the woman’s bank account by downloading the Sky app.
On Wednesday, based on the complaint of the victim, the cyber crime police station has registered a case and formed two teams. This is said to be the biggest cyber crime incident in Banaras so far. On the other hand, the family including the woman is in depression after this incident.
Shampa Rakshit, wife of Ashok Rakshit, resident of Amalnath Apartment located in Rath Yatra of Sigra police station area, is a retired teacher of St. John’s Madauli. According to the victim Shampa Rakshit, a call was received from an unknown number at 9 am on March 8. He introduced himself as Telecom Regulatory Authority and said that your phone will be switched off in two hours. Now you will get a call from the police.
According to Shampa, a call came immediately and said that he was talking to Vinay Chaubey from Vile Parle Police Station in Maharashtra. Told another mobile number and said that you have taken this mobile number from Ghatkopar and are doing illegal work with it.
On this I said that this is not my number and I do not live in Mumbai. The person on the phone said that there is an arrest warrant against you and you will have to come to Vile Parle Police Station in Mumbai. On this the person started talking to his senior and got the Sky app downloaded. He was also intimidated by threats of arrest and to stay indoors and not tell anything about this to anyone. By applying pressure, took complete details of the family and checked the complete details of my bank account.
Shampa told the police that the person on the phone assured to deposit all the money in the bank account in RBI and return the money after investigation and said that he would not be arrested.
Shared developments with chartered accountants
Meanwhile, given the account number, in which I deposited RTGS of Rs 3 crore on March 11. Meanwhile, on March 12, a call was again received to transfer the remaining money in the account through RTGS to avoid arrest. On March 12, Rs 55 lakh was again transferred through RTGS to his specified bank account. After this he shared this development with his chartered accountant. Then I came to know that I had been cheated.
Cyber crime station in-charge Vijay Narayan Mishra said that no one should share bank account, UPI, PIN etc. on the phone. Cyber fraudsters are currently engaged in looting people’s hard-earned money by adopting various tactics. Do not give bank related information to unknown numbers or anyone you do not know. In case of any cyber crime incident, lodge a complaint with the concerned police station within 24 hours.
