Caller posing as bank officer dupes man of ` 21K

Trusting information registered on a caller identification application proved costly for a 38-year-old Ghatkopar resident. The victim received a phone call from an unknown person and his name on the caller ID application reflected as 'bank manager', who duped him of Rs 21,000.

The caller identified himself as the manager of the bank in which victim had his account and on the pretext of increasing his debit card validity period, induced the victim to share his card details and OTPs, after which victim lost thousands of rupees within minutes from his bank account.

According to the police, the victim (name withheld on request), works as an account officer in a private company at Masjid Bunder and has his account in a nationalised bank. On Friday when the victim was at his office, he received a phone call from an unknown number and the caller ID application showed caller as 'Pravin Mukherjee Bank Manager'.

The caller informed that he was calling from the head office of the bank and told that since victim's debit card was about to expire, he would get his debit card validity increased and issue him a new card.