Another phish in net, bank customer duped of Rs 1L

THANE: Cyber fraudsters have struck again! This time it was a Thane resident who was duped to the tune of Rs 1 lakh. They conned him under the pretext of calling him from the customer care centre of State Bank of India (SBI). Amitabh N Das, the victim lives in the limits of Srinagar police station.
The Srinagar police in Thane have registered an offence against three persons including two women for hacking his bank account.
According to sources, it just took 10 minutes to siphon off Rs 1lakh from the Thane based SBI account and transfer it to the two fake accounts of two other women. "On Tuesday, Das got a call from an unknown person. He pretended to be an executive calling from the SBI customer care centre and collected all the details including the password from him. Later, he realised that Rs 1 lakh was transferred from his bank account into accounts of two unknown women."
"The accused are yet to be arrested," said, Senior Police Inspector (SPI) S B Owhal of Srinagar Police Station.
He further said that investigations are on and the accused would be nabbed soon.
Recently, Abdul A Mohammed of Thane was cheated of Rs 90,000. A case of cheating has been registered against Dharmendra Yadav, a resident of Gandhinagar in Kandivali, Vimal Kataria from Thane, Frank Adlar and Mark Smith from England. It started when Mohammed applied for jobs on various websites. He worked in Saudi Arabia. "Mohammed was looking for a job when he received a mail from an Email Id informing him that he had been selected for a senior accountant post in a company for five years."
A person named Jimmy Spencer had signed the mail. Mohammed was asked to send his contact details.
After four days, he received another mail from one Mark Smith who said he had to first become a member of National Leap Oil Workers. Mohammed was asked to deposit 175 pounds in ICICI bank account of Dharmendra Yadav."
Later, Frank Adler who claimed to be a consultant from the British Embassy called him. Frank asked Mohammed to deposit 350 pounds in the account of one Vimal Kataria, needed for a visa.
He was then asked to deposit another 600 pounds for a work permit. He did that in Kataria's account. They again demanded money for air tickets. He then grew suspicious.
In the meantime, he got a call from the British Embassy inquiring why he had sent his original passport. The embassy told him there was no Adler with them. It was then that Mohammed realised he had been conned.