More cases of online fraud have come into the open, after two female residents of the state complained to the police recently of such crimes.
A woman in Tura lodged a complaint that on December 23 a loan of Rs 4.5 lakh was disbursed to her through Axis Bank. Rs 1,11,484 of this was debited for a previous outstanding liability and the remainder of Rs 3,38,516 remained in her bank account.
However, on December 26, she received an anonymous phone call wherein the caller claimed to be from Axis Bank’s customer care service and asked her to provide her debit card details on the pretext of activating her EMI.
The caller also instructed her to download a mobile application and requested to share an OTP, to which she complied. That opened the way to the fraudulent withdrawal of all the money in her bank account.
In another case, a woman in Shillong lodged a complaint that, on January 3, one person who identified himself as Raju informed her that Rs 25,000 had been mistakenly transferred to her bank account through GPay and asked her to return the funds.
However, the complainant later found that Rs 35,000 had been debited from her bank account without her knowledge.
