Mangaluru: Caller posed as banker dupes man of Rs. 1.61 lakhs
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Mangaluru: A man fell victim to a fraudster who impersonated a banker over the phone and tricked him into divulging his OTP (One-Time Password). The fraudster successfully used the OTP to transfer funds from the man's bank account without his knowledge or consent.
On April 13, a person holding a bank account in Haleyangadi received a call from an unknown individual from the mobile number 8895427884. The caller claimed to be a representative of the complainant's bank and informed him that his account was blocked due to the lack of updated KYC information. The caller then sent a message requesting the complainant to call 09046400347 for further details regarding his bank account.
Upon calling the number, the complainant spoke with another unidentified person who asked for the bank details of the complainant's paternal uncle. Subsequently, the person found out the nominee for the uncle's account, to which the complainant stated the name of his aunt as the nominee.
After obtaining the nominee details of the complainant's uncle's bank account, the unknown individual proceeded to extract information about the complainant's aunt and her bank account. Using this information, the individual contacted the aunt and requested her to provide the OTP that she had received.
Upon receiving the OTP, the unidentified individual managed to transfer a sum of Rs. 1,61,353 in multiple transactions to their own account, thereby deceiving both the complainant and his aunt. The incident was reported to the CEN police and is currently under investigation.
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Two West Bengal SIR poll officials enter Odisha village ‘mistakenly’; 72 locals held for assaulting
Balasore: At least 72 people, including 23 women, from Rajnagar village in the district have been arrested under charge of assaulting two poll officials from West Bengal, who are suspected to have mistakenly entered their village on Wednesday.
Odisha Police are learned to have said that poll officers Sumit Hazra and Som Hansda, who are bank employees, had been assigned the duty of supervisiing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise at Baliagaria Block under the Nayagram Police Station limits in West Bengal. On Wednesday, however, the duo mistakenly entered the nearby Rajnagar, located under the Raibania Police Station limits in Balasore district, they added.
According to news agencies, Balasore Additional Superintendent of Police Niranjan Behera has said that the returning officers were detained and assaulted by the villagers on account of communication gap. Explaining the incident further, the officer said that Hazra and Hansda approached an auto rickshaw that was on school duty as they were unable to get any other transportation facility to reach Nayagram. “As the rickshaw driver declined to help, they were waiting for an alternate means of transportation, when a rumour was spread that child lifters were working in the area. This gave rise to suspicion among the villagers and led to the assault of Hazra and Hansda,” Behera is learned to have said.
Further, the Addl SP has said that the villagers are learned to have assaulted and detained two police personnel from Raibania Police Station who rushed to Rajnagar to rescue the returning officers. “Additional forces were sent to the village, even as senior police and administrative officers visited Rajnagar to bring the situation under control,” he reportedly added.
Behera also said, “The injured poll officials, after being rescued, were admitted to the local hospital for treatment. Two cases are registered in this regard, one by the poll officials and another by police. More than 100 people have been questioned.”
The investigation team, after verifying the video footage, has held 72 accused, who will be produced before court. Additional security forces have been mobilized in the Raibania Police Station limits to prevent any untoward situation, officials have said.
