A rogue mail, ‘sim swap’ and scam worth crores

Chennai | Saturday | 23rd February, 2019

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CHENNAI: Gone are the days when spammers identifying themselves as an deposed African king would send a mail promising millions and then seek your bank details. He accesses the victim’s mail and shares the OTP sent to the victim’s mail and gets a new SIM card using forged documents,” said Data Information Security Association of India founder-president V Rajendran said.Police said Odafe and his team transferred the money to multiple accounts. A joint effort by all police across the country is required to catch the suspects as they target people everywhere,” the officer said. James passed on information about a potential target to his ‘field team’ which prepared forged documents such as Aadhaar and PAN cards. “There are about 1,000 such racketeers operating in Kolkata and New Delhi targeting business firms in Noida, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and other big cities..