Woman loses loan amount to fraudster

A fraudster has siphoned-off ₹30,000 from a bank account belonging to a woman from Aragodi village in Marutipura Grama Panchayat limits on the pretext of linking her bank account with her Aadhaar number.

Lakshmamma, who had a savings bank account with a nationalised bank at Batte Mallappa village, received a call from a person who claimed to be a bank executive. The person claimed that she had to link her bank account and Aadhaar numbers, else her account would be deactivated.

Lakshmamma did not sense any foul play, as the caller seemed to have most of her banking details. She shared her Aadhaar number. The fraudster asked her to share the one time password that would be sent to her mobile phone, which Lakshmamma did apart from sharing her card verification value (CVV) of her debit card. Soon, she got a message that ₹30,000 had been debited from her bank account in four separate transactions.

Jagadeesh, Lakshmamma’s son, said that the money had been debited for online purchases done in Mumbai and Gurugram. He claimed that Lakshmamma had recently borrowed ₹30,000 from a self help group to meet personal expenses. The amount had been directly remitted to her bank account, which was now lost to the fraudster, he said.

The Hosanagar police have taken up a case under various sections of the Information Technology Act in this connection.