Elderly man gives details of debit cards on phone, loses Rs 35K

INDORE

: A 71-year-old man was duped of Rs 35,000 in a day by a man, who claimed to be branch

manager

of a private bank in Palasia.

On complaint of Devendra Prasad Mukhiya, resident of Alka Apartment, a

case

was registered against the accused.

Mukhiya told police that on January 26 he received a call from a man Rajeev Sharma, who told him that his debit card had expired and to restart the card, he needed the details mentioned on it. Sharma told him that he was branch manager of a private bank in Palasia area.

Mukhiya passed on the phone to his son who gave all details including card verification value number to the accused over phone. The complainant again received a call from Rajeev who again asked for the details of the second card owned by him.

After a while, Rs 24,980 was deducted from his first card and Rs 9989 was deducted from the second card through Paytm.

As the complainant realized that the amount had been deducted, he called Rajeev but his number was switched off. He, then, approached police and narrated the incident.

Vijay Nagar police station in charge Ratnesh Mishra said that a case had been registered. The KYC of the account in which the money was transferred was not done and it might be a fake account which was being used for such transactions.

The details of this account might not help police reach the accused as fake name, address and forged identity cards must have been used to create it, he added.

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