No cards please: Sameera Reddy

Not only was her bank account hacked, but Sameera Reddy���s hacker offered her some of the best advice
Sameera Reddy has a taken a vow this year ��� she���ll stop doing any online transactions and will not use credit/debit cards. The reason for the actress��� change of heart is simple ��� her account was hacked a month ago and the miscreant actually called her to tell her the same!
���It was a funny, yet frightening experience,��� she recalls, ���I kept getting calls from an unknown number on a day and so picked it up.The caller said that he was a hacker of Indian origin based in the US and that his ���team��� had just hacked my credit card account. I was confused at first, but after I checked my account balance, I realized that what he said was true and that almost 4 lakhs had been withdrawn without my knowledge.���
The hacker then told her that he���d refund the money that he had taken but could not do anything about the amount that his other hacker friends had withdrawn. ���He told me that after he had finished the hacking process, he casually looked at my name,��� she says. That���s when the hacker realized that the person was a celebrity ��� and an actress whose movies he had watched and enjoyed!
���I was reticent when he said that at first but after getting to know that he had indeed reimbursed a lakh into my account, I didn���t know how to react,��� says Sameera, ���In fact, he even gave me tips on how and where to use my credit cards and warned me against online transactions. It was one of the most bizarre experiences I���ve ever had. Now, I���ve understood that shopping online is never completely safe and I���ll prefer using cash and resort to personal purchases.���