Ahmedabad : A 26-year-old college employee lost Rs 3 lakh after allegedly downloading a malicious Android application package (APK) file sent via WhatsApp under the guise of an SBI Card update. Chandkheda police registered a cyberfraud complaint on Friday.
The complainant, an assistant officer at a college in Kalol, told police that he received a WhatsApp message from an unknown number on July 1. Multiple transactions amounting to Rs 4,99,952 were carried out from his State Bank of India account, according to the complaint. In addition, Rs 24,967 was allegedly charged to his SBI credit card, taking the total unauthorised transactions to Rs 5.24 lakh. The complainant reported the incident to the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal on July 2 and received separate acknowledgement numbers for the bank account and credit card fraud complaints. Subsequently, Rs 1,99,982 was credited back to his bank account. However, Rs 3,24,937 remained unrecovered, according to the complaint.
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