Mangaluru: A 43-year-old man lost Rs 1.7 lakh from his bank accounts after allegedly downloading a malicious APK file through a fake traffic e-penalty link, according to a complaint filed with the CEN crime police station.
Stay updated with the latest Mangaluru news. The complainant alleged that unidentified persons had sent him a malicious APK file disguised as a traffic e-penalty link and fraudulently transferred the money. CEN crime police have registered a case. Download the TOI App.
The victim received a message from a mobile number at 9.06 am on Oct 18, asking him to review the traffic record of his car, according to the complaint. The following day, at 7.59 am, he received another message from the same number, this time regarding a traffic e-penalty. On Oct 20, between 6 pm and 6.30 pm, he received around 100 text messages from different numbers. Suspecting something was amiss, he checked his bank accounts and found that a total of Rs 1,71,599 had been transferred in multiple transactions to an unknown person’s account.
He ignored the message. When he clicked on the link in the message, an application named ‘Mparivahan’ was downloaded onto his phone.