According to the Mumbai Police, there have been 78 FIR complaints by customers who claimed that about 300 fake bank accounts were created with the purchase of about 100 SIM cards. Online fraudsters scammed the victims by misleading them into updating their KYC requirements for PAN cards and churning out all their details.
In an interaction with the Times of India, Nagma shared that she clicked the link since she did not receive the message from a private number. She said, “I believed the message as it resembled those sent by the bank and it was not from a private number. The fraud occurred at night when I clicked on the link. I immediately got a call from a person claiming to be from the bank.”
Elaborating on the unfortunate incident Nagma added, “He told me he would guide me to complete the KYC update. The fraudster gained remote access to my phone. Though I did not share any details on the link, the fraudster created a beneficiary account after logging into my internet banking and transferred Rs 1 lakh to a nationalised bank.”
