Hyderabad: The new cybercrime method left the police confused with fraudsters specifically targeting banking software and professionals who want to give their homes to rent.
Top police officers said several multi-national company employees failed to look through the trick of dirty fraudsters, who sucked Lakh Rupee by asking homeowners to scan the QR code or receive advanced rent through what was explained as a ‘reverse payment’ method that did not exist.
Swaminathan, an IT architect of the MNC Pharmacy from Kondapur was one of the victims who lost Rs 11.99 Lakh.
On February 5, he uploaded the details of the empty portion of his house on the real estate website that was looking for RS 20,000 monthly rent and one-month down payment.
The next day, Swaminathan received a call from someone who identified himself as Randip Singh, a CISF officer who was moved from Pune to Hyderabad.
Shows interest, Singh wants to pay a down payment amount and explain to Swaminathan about “the reverse payment method used in the CISF account department.” “People who posed as CISF officers assured Swaminathan that he had to transfer a month’s rental to a ‘officer’ bank account and doubt the amount to be transferred back from the CISF account section into the homeowner account.
To test the method, Swaminathan sent RS 1 and received the hospital 2 From the fraudulent bank account.
Furthermore, the cheater convinced Swaminathan to transfer RS 11.99 lakh from a bank account and debit card through 12 transactions, while still calling for about two hours, “Cybercrime Inspector M Ravinder M) said Reddy.
“As long as the cheater convinced him that he would get twice the amount he sent and Swaminathan ignored a warning call from his bank too,” said the inspector.
Private Bank Manager, Shiva Shankar from Chandanagar, filed a similar complaint on February 2, said that one B Pratap Yadav, posing as an army person who was recently transferred from Ahmedabad to Hyderabad, made him transfer RS 2.2 lakh from his mobile banking application to a bank account Yadav through nine transactions with the guise paying a face plus a one-month lease through the same ‘reverse payment method’.
On February 7, Srinath Kumar from Kukatpally, a partner leader in the MNC software, approached the police said that he had placed advertisements on the home rent portal to rent empty flat for RS 20,000 advance payments a month and two months.
Kumar received a call from two people, who identified themselves as Armymen Randheer Singh and Bute Gorai, moved from Noida to Hyderabad.
“They want to make a payment through the QR code.
Kumar lost Rs 2.74 lakh when he scans a QR code sent by a cheater and the amount debited from his bank account, instead of being credited,” said the investigative officer.
(The name of the victim changes to protect identity)
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