Kolkata: Police suspect the shoulder surf gang again in Kolkata after receiving several complaints of targeted elderly ATM users.
The last victim was a senior citizen who was cheated at the ATM kiosk at Golf Green on Sunday.
According to complaint Sanghamitra Ghosh, 74, who has gone to the ATM on Sunday around noon, someone has managed to exchange the debit card after knowing the pin.
He lost Rs 90,000.
“My Septtugeneria I went to the nearest public bank ATM at Uday Sanankar sarani and pulled Rs 10,000 from my account using my ATM card.
When I came out, a man called him from behind told him that he was with the desired error in the desired number twice and Therefore it is necessary to cancel it.
Not suspicious, my mother did something ordered.
At this point, the man asked him to take a mini statement to re-examine.
He checked in sequence.
However, later.
When he returned home, I realized that my card interchanged with others.
When calling the bank immediately to block my card, I realized that this fraud at that time had made nine withdrawals, around Rs 10,000 each.
The type of crime where age, weak and vulnerable is being targeted to be intended immediately, “Bodhisatwa Ghosh, sons of victims and senior executives in an advertising company , write on Facebook.
But Ghosh was not alone, several other people had also fallen prey to the “shoulder surf gang”.
A sub-inspector’s assistant – was transferred from Darbhanga in Bihar and in Kolkata for some work – has claimed this year that the debit card was cloned and RS 40,000 withdrawn from his account through an ATM located close to Yogajog Bhawan.
Police Bowbazar has registered a case of cheating and fraud.
In another case, again in March, MD Abdul Kalam Azad – a senior citizen who was in the street park area – was cheated by ATM fraudsters in the amount of RS 96,000 when he went to withdraw money from a state-nationalized ATM in the New Park Street area.
The case is registered in the Beniakukur police.
Similar incidents were recorded in the Dhakuria area, the lake and previous Naktala gang escaped away from the city.
In February this year, the shoulder surf gang has replaced the ATM card users in Rajabazar and attract Rs 60,000.