Vadodara: The car workshop owner lost Rs 2.6 lakh in cyber fraud after the defendant blocked his SIM card last month.
The money was transferred from his account through two transactions.
According to Dodu Dodiya’s complainant, his SIM card was blocked on July 2 by a telecommunications company.
He said that he had received calls from customer service who asked whether the phone was lost or stolen because they had received a request to block the SIM card.
Even though Dodiya informed that he had not made such a request, his SIM was blocked on the same night.
The next day when he went to a telecommunications company store, he was told that the request to block his SIM card was made by several others.
After the Dodiya SIM card was restored, he received two SMS stating that Rs 2.6 Lakh was debited from cash and demand deposits.
When checking with the bank, Dodiya learned that the money was transferred to a bank account from one Kumar Singh Vishal through RTGS and Imp.
Because the transaction cannot be recovered, Dodiya approached the police and based on complaints, cheating violations and under the information technology law was registered at the Cyber Crime Police Station.
The police said that the defendant had to get a SIM card used by a blocked complainant.
Then, the defendant must get a new SIM card from the same amount issued.
“Using a new SIM card, the defendant had to get access to the OTP bank and he transferred money from a complainant bank account,” said a police officer.
About a week ago, another businessman named Sanjay Patel also registered a complaint after he lost Rs 46 lakh under a similar operandi mode.
The Patel SIM card is also blocked and then the number is debited from his account through 14 different transactions.
Sim card blocked, money transferred from a bank account as a human loses’ 2.6L
