Roni Antony
Port Blair, Jan 03: In two more cases of probable Cyber frauds, nearly Rs. 78,000 and Rs. 60,000 have been withdrawn from two different bank accounts, without any knowledge of the Account Holders.
As per sources the Account holders neither shared their OTP/PIN to anyone nor have they receive any fraud calls. Although two complaints have been received by PS Pahargaon in this regard, but no FIR has been registered yet in these cases, as presently concerned banks are being questioned for such illegal transactions.
Andaman Sheekha investigation shows that earlier nearly six month back in two similar cases were reported by public but later concerned banks termed such transactions as ‘faulty transactions’ and returned money back to the Account Holders.
As in these two present cases huge amount of cash is involved, it is yet not clear, whether such withdrawals are a result of cyber crime or faulty transactions.
In past 99 percent of cases, only those ATM/ Debit/ Credit Card holders experience such illegal transactions, who do not change the original PIN of ATM/ Debit and Credit Cards, provided with ATM Kit. Many believe that changing PIN of new ATM/Debit/ Credit Card might be the best way to avert such incidents.
