Cyber crime has been increasing in the country. This time IAS Officer Dr. T Shubhamangala falls victiom to cyber crime. The miscreant took a fake link message of KYC and extracted Rs 6.10 lakh from her SBI account. The link came to update KYC on her mobile number. The police is investigating the case. No arrest has been made in this case yet. According to the information, the SDO opened the link knowing that the message came from the bank and filled the confidential information sought in it. After a while, the crook called the SDO and said that your KYC is done and OTP will come on the mobile, after you can use your account. As soon as OTP was used, she got three messages from bank for debit of 3 lakh once and 1.50 lakhs two times.
On finding out the fraud, the SDM immediately reported on SBI's customer care, but the money was not returned. After this, she contacted Jhadol police station, but the police here do not have training in cyber crime, so she was asked to report to Udaipur Cyber Cell Unit. She later lodged a complaint to the cyber cell in Udaipur.
After receiving information from the cyber cell, citing her account being in the Bangalore branch of SBI, the cyber cell has asked to contact Bengaluru cyber cell and get the case registered there. Her husband is a deputy commissioner in the Income Tax Department in Bangalore. In such a situation, he went to the cyber cell and got the case registered. The police is investigating the case. The case is being seriously investigated. Significantly, the incidence of cyber crime has increased in the country.
