A Lucknow man and his two sons have been duped of Rs 16 lakhs after fraudsters obtained a brand new SIM card of his cell quantity by lodging an e-FIR of a lacking SIM and submitting pretend Aadhar card.
They then withdrew the quantity from their financial institution accounts.
The sufferer has lodged a case with the Cyber Crime Police station.
In his criticism, Divyansh Singh of Chand Backyard in Aliganj mentioned he checked the stability of his checking account on June 3 and located somebody had withdrawn the cash.
“I later discovered that the miscreants additionally had siphoned off cash from the checking account of my father and brother. They withdrew a complete of Rs 16.04 lakh from all of the three financial institution accounts,” he mentioned.
The sufferer contacted the financial institution and was advised that the miscreants withdrew the cash on Could 31 by means of web banking by which his BSNL cell quantity was used.
“I additional queried about the identical from the telecom Mahanagar workplace and was advised that somebody utilized for a brand new SIM card for my cell quantity utilizing e- FIR,” he mentioned.
SP, Cyber cell, Triveni Singh, mentioned that preliminary investigations reveal that after procuring the SIM card the accused additionally acquired maintain of the Aadhar card and debit card of the victims.
She didn’t rule out the involvement of financial institution workers and telecom operators within the fraud.
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