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Do Not Discuss banking Information over Telephone, Authorities Inform senior citizens

Coimbatore: The town cybercrime authorities on Friday warned that the senior citizens against revealing their bank accounts and debit card information, pin numbers, and also one-time password (OTP) to anonymous callers, that, they explained, could utilize the data to withdraw money from their account.
They said that the callers would usually be presenting themselves as director of particular banks to extract the precious advice in your senior citizens, that are the prime targets.
“The callers typically take their aims to confidence by assuring to issue a fresh debit card at a week later obstructing the present one.
Then they gather the facts,” said a police officer.
“Many of these elderly citizens, that are receiving pensions in the state and Union governments, are utilizing conventional cellular phones.
Conmen accumulate their landline telephone numbers from telephone diaries and get themtelling that the government will issue one debit card for several of the accounts.
Then they collect card information along with CVV amounts from the goals, requesting them to discuss with the OTP received in their cell telephones,” the officer stated.
At times, he explained, the conmen would persuade the elderly citizens to split the sensitive banking information by assuring them to trigger all of the banking associated services online so they shouldn’t go to the banks throughout the lockdown.
“We request that the senior citizens to not disclose their banking information to anybody over telephone ”

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