Mumbai Woman Got Scammed Of ₹75,000 After Sharing Her OTP With A Tele-Caller

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There is no dearth of fraudsters in the world. The race to be successful and earn money quickly is spread so far and wide that people would be willing to take whatever route there is to get the desired success. While most people work for their goals and earn their bread and butter, some dupe people of livelihoods and scam them into stealing their hard-earned money.

Be it a billionaire like Nirav Modi indulging in financial scams, or creeps on the internet who lure people in the name of jobs, services and tele-callers. Another innocent person to fall prey to these scammers is a homemaker from Antop Hill, Mumbai.

Ranjani Menon, a 37-year-old woman was duped by a fake tele-caller of ₹75,000 withing 20 minutes. The caller identified herself as ‘Priya Sharma’ and said she was calling with regards to Ranjani’s biodata on a job portal.

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As per a report by TOI, Ranjani had uploaded her biodata on a job portal. The tele-caller told her that she was selected for the job and has to transfer ₹10 as processing fees. Ranjani tried to use her SBI credit card to make the payment. When that didn’t work, she used her Canara Bank debit card to do the transaction.

When the second transaction also didn’t go through, the caller asked her to share the bank’s OTP (one-time password) to help her. Within 20 mins, ₹75,000 was transferred from accounts to e-wallets and withdrawn from there too. Both her cards were blocked after that.

Her husband, Sanjeev, told TOI,

“The caller told my wife to pay a Rs10 processing fee for the same. Her SBI credit card and Canara Bank debit card, which she tried to use to pay, were blocked after the incident.”

The Menons have registered a complaint with the Antop Hill police station. Needless to say, the fraud caller got hold of her account details after Ranjani shared her OTP.

Cases of such fraudulent calls and scammers are not unheard of. We often receive messages from our banks alerting against sharing our passwords, ATM pins and other bank details over a call with anyone, even if they claim to be from the bank itself. But scammers will find different ways to scam innocent people like Ranjani.

Make a note, guys. Please be extremely careful while sharing any kind of bank details with people you do not know closely, on call, on email or via any other form of communication. More often than not, it’s a trap.

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