David Ashok Rodrigues, a resident of Udupi, suffered a loss of ₹3.9 lakh on Wednesday in response to an SMS about updating KYC.
In a complaint at the Udupi Cyber Economic and Narcotic Crime Police Station, Mr. Rodrigues said that on Wednesday he received an SMS about updating his KYC. Believing it to be an SMS from his bank, Mr. Rodrigues called the number.
A few minutes later, he received a call from a person, claiming himself to be a representative of Canara Bank, asking Mr. Rodrigues to complete the KYC update formalities immediately.
Mr. Rodrigues followed the caller’s instructions and shared the four OTPs he received with him. Soon after, ₹99,999 was deducted twice, followed by ₹99,997 and ₹99,994 respectively from the account of Mr. Rodrigues.
The CEN police registered a complaint under section 66(c) and 66(d) of the Information Technology Act.
job fraud
Another Udupi resident was duped of ₹1.28 lakh after following a link from a website related to earning money by completing a task.
In the complaint given at the CEN police station, Yashodhar said that on June 19, he received a link to a website on Telegram, which said that money could be earned by rating products.
As per the instructions, Mr. Yashodhar deposited ₹ 10,900 in a bank account. After this, ₹ 35,514 and ₹ 81,737 were transferred. Mr. Yashodhar said, he did not get any work and the amount was also not refunded.
His complaint was registered under section 66(d) of the IT Act.