Gurugram: 62-year-old dials bank ‘customer care’, loses Rs 2.8 lakh
Gurgaon: A 62-year-old woman who dialled the customer care number of a bank that fraudsters had put online was cheated of Rs 2.8 lakh. The woman, who wanted to complain about her credit card, had found the number via a search engine and dialled it, which created a gateway for the fraudsters to hack into her account.
Sunita Sharma, police said, was facing a problem with carrying out transactions from her card, following which she approached the bank where she was directed to file an online complaint with customer care. Sharma then looked for the number on the internet and called them up. The receiver asked her to share her card details and via multiple transactions, emptied the bank account. A case has now been registered sections 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 420 (cheating) of the IPC. TNN
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