ATM fraud: Senior citizen conned over phone

Chandigarh | Monday | 17th September, 2018

Summary:

The caller wanted her ATM card details over the mobile phone.She took it to be follow-up call from the bank regarding her complaint and passed on the details along with the OTP (one-time password) received on her mobile phone. We suspect the involvement of some employee of the bank, who could have leaked the information about the elderly woman. A day later, she received a call from someone claiming to be from her bank. Assistant sub-inspector Harender Singh said: "We started the investigation soon after getting the complaint. The statement came in response to a question in Parliament..