WOMAN LOSES RS 7 LAKH AFTER SHARING OTP 28 TIMES OVER A WEEK

According to reports, a woman from Nerul in Navi Mumbai has lost Rs 7 lakh after sharing her debit card details and OTP (one-time password) with a person who called her up pretending to be a bank official. The 40-year-old woman named Tasneem Mujjakkar Modak shared OTPs with the swindler over a week.

The woman, who said that she didn’t know anything about online banking, had Rs 7.2 lakh in her account with a nationalised bank. A man called her up on May 17 telling her debit card had been blocked for ‘technical reasons’ and demanded the details of her card including the 16-digit debit card numbers, her name and the 3-digit CVV number, which is supposed to be kept confidential.

Modak lost Rs 6,98,973 to the fraudster after she shared OTPs with the man over a week. An FIR has reportedly been registered after the woman filed a complaint at Nerul police station on May 29. Police said that the caller used three SIM cards to contact the woman and the transactions were made in Mumbai, Noida, Gurugram, Kolkata and Bengaluru.