Woman duped of 7L over fake online traffic challan
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Pune: A woman (33) from Ambegaon Pathar lodged a complaint with the police on Sunday, stating that online fraudsters cheated her of Rs 7 lakh on May 21 by siphoning off money from her bank account through a fake online traffic challan.
The Ambegaon police reported that the woman owned a scooter and thought she might have breached a traffic rule. The victim, who works as clerical staff with a private company, opened the message embedded with a link.
The fraudsters sent the message with the title 'RTO Traffic Challan', mentioning a fine of Rs 500. Senior inspector Sharad Zine of Ambegaon police told TOI, "The woman ended up downloading remote access software.
Unknowingly, she also filled out a form with her personal and banking details as the software prompted her to do so. She just followed all the steps as directed by the software."
"Once she filled out the form and unknowingly shared the PIN of the software online, the suspects took control of her phone and siphoned off money from her bank account using the details she filled in the form. The money went to six different bank accounts.
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The woman did not receive any messages when the suspects siphoned off the money from her bank account as the suspects had control of her mobile phone. The suspects released control of her mobile phone after two days, and then the woman checked her bank account online and realised the scam," he said.
This is the second such case in the city. Earlier, on May 27, a third-year architecture degree course student (22) from a prominent college in Karvenagar lost Rs 2.02 lakh to cyber crooks between May 17 and 18 after she received a bogus traffic challan message embedded with a link to remote access software. Her friend received an "RTO challan" of Rs 2,000 for a traffic rule violation on May 17. The challan did not open on the phone of the victim's friend.
She then forwarded it to the victim, who used the two-wheeler on May 16. The student thought she might have breached a traffic rule while driving the scooter, clicked on the embedded link, and ended up losing Rs 2.02 lakhs.
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