Banks are emptying accounts in the name of KYC cyber thugs from scientists to doctors

Be careful if you get a call for KYC verification. Thugs can empty your account through cyber fraud. South Delhi District Police’s Cyber ​​Cell has arrested two accused of cheating female doctors. The accused Mohammed Azad and Rahul Kumar Shah took documents from a woman doctor posted at Mehrauli’s TB Hospital in the name of renovating KYC as a bank employee and took Rs. A few days ago, a Kolkata scientist had cheated millions. Online fraudsters have also robbed a senior scientist of nuclear physics for Rs 2.07 lakh. The assassin tricked the scientist by calling him a bank officer over the phone.

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The SBI has informed the public through its Twitter handle. SB says it protects you from fraudulent calls or messages requesting KYC verification. The fraudster makes a phone call or sends a text message pretending to be a bank / company representative to get your personal details. Report such cases to cybercrime.gov.in:

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Dr Pooja Sarin, who works as a doctor at Mehrauli’s TB Hospital, has lodged a complaint of cyber fraud in December, Deputy Commissioner of Police Atul Kumar Thakur said. The victim told police that she received a call from an unknown number and asked for papers in her bank account, KYC. After asking for the papers, the accused told him to get OTP and then withdrew seven lakhs from his account. Funds have been withdrawn from the victim’s account and transferred to ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and PayTM.

The phone number is currently in Gujarat

The police found the phone number current in Gujarat by checking the accounts. During the debesh, the police arrested a young man named Azad. Nadia, a resident of West Bengal, told Nadha that he and another man were working for Rahul, Azad said. The police team arrested the two accused. A third accused is being sought for trafficking.

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Let me tell you that Chempa Biswas, a scientist living in the north of Keshtapur in the city of Kolkata, has cheated. Biswas was called on Wednesday to download the app on his mobile phone to update KYC details, a police officer of Bidhannagar said. After downloading the Team Viewer app, callers had access to Biswas’ mobile. He said to pay 10 rupees.

10 paid and Rs 1.35 lakh from account

The police officer said – the scientist paid the amount through net banking, but was asked to pay that amount through mobile banking. If he did this, he would have deducted 1.35 lakhs from his account in a short time. After this the caller was told to pay Rs 10 by debit card. This time again, Rs 72,000 was deducted from the account. Biswas said the amount was being withdrawn from his account, due to a technical error and the caller said that the amount would be sent to his account soon.