An AI-generated illustration of an elderly couple after losing money to cyberfraud
On Oct 8, the woman searched on the internet for her husband’s bank customer care number. He assured her that he would resolve the issue within 24 hours and asked for details of her husband’s pension account,” the officer said. The officer said the woman then checked the bank accounts and discovered that Rs 8 lakh had been transferred from the three accounts – Rs 7.5 lakh from her account and Rs 50,000 from the two accounts of her husband.
An officer from the Kamshet police said the complainant and her husband are retired and live in a Kamshet housing society. The officer said the fraudster subsequently obtained the account numbers of the woman’s bank account and her husband’s two bank accounts, along with their debit card details and OTPs. The bank informed that relative of the woman that no such assistant manager was employed there,” the officer said.
The fraudster posed as an assistant manager of the Karve Road branch of a public sector bank. She had noticed that no transactions were taking place in his pension account. “When she called a number she found on the internet, the receiver identified himself as an assistant manager at the bank’s Karve Road branch. She became suspicious and contacted a relative in Pune, who visited the bank’s Karve Road branch to verify the person’s identity. You Can Also Check: Gold Rate in Pune | Silver Rate in Pune | Bank Holidays in Pune | Public Holidays in Pune | Petrol Price in Pune | Diesel Price in Pune | CNG Price in Pune | LPG Price in Pune
The woman lodged a complaint with Kamshet police on Saturday.