Bank manager loses about ₹1 lakh

GURUGRAM: A 35-year-old senior bank manager has claimed that she lost around ₹1 lakh after she revealed her debit card details and password to a man who posed as a bank executive, police said on Thursday.

The incident happened in June 24 when Megha Soni, a resident of Sector 56, said she got a message on her phone asking her to click on a website link to redeem points worth ₹4,897 collected on her debit card. After she clicked on the link, she was asked to fill out her debit card details. Once she was done, she got a one-time password (OTP) on her phone.

“Then I got a call from a man, who said he was from the customer care of a bank and asked for OTP to credit the money to my account,” said Soni. As soon as she gave the OTP, she got a message from her bank that ₹99,946 has been debited from her account, she claimed.

Her money was allegedly transferred from her account via a Paytm account and then it was transferred to three bank accounts, said assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Rishi Pal, who is the investigating officer in the case.

An FIR was registered at Sector 56 Police Station on Wednesday under IPC sections 420 (Cheating) and 406 (criminal breach of trust).

While Soni claimed that she had filed the case five months ago, Pal said she had filed her complaint with the cyber cell and that they forwarded the complaint to them after preliminary investigation to file the FIR.

“We are tracing the number from which she got the call and are also collecting details of the transaction,” the ASI said.