Instant fraud of approx 3 lakh rupees from a Jawan’s bank account, the matter is serious, it can happen to you too, how to avoid it?
Along with the advancement in technology, the cyber criminals are also doing their job continuously. And their softest target is the soldiers of the Indian Army and CAPF.
So we will talk about a Culprits who has been caught by a soldier. About whom we will know later. A soldier’s earning is the earning of blood and sweat. And that earning is taken out of the soldier’s account by the cyber criminal in 2 minutes and Empty the account of the soldier !
Just a little greed and a little deceit. Let’s know the whole matter. A report has been issued, that an instruction has been issued from the CRPF.
Such a Cyber thief has been caught by a Jawan of the 48th Battalion CRPF. He said that, “ it happened with me but it should not be with the others.”
On March 9, 2024, a call came who introduced himself as Jio Customer Care Executive. In which it was told that you should submit SIM card KYC to keep it functional.
The customer care executive convinced the jawan that “you should update your Jio SIM mobile number KYC, otherwise, your number will be closed by the company.” Such an intimation regarding blocking of mobile SIM will disappoint everyone and a little shock also. Because that mobile number is linked everywhere and SMS received in it.
Mobile banking, internet banking, along with all the UPI applications. There is a link with the mobile number. For any citizen, without the number is functional, may fall in great difficulties. People used to think that if there raise any problem with my SIM card, it will not be easy to recover and activate that number will be quite difficult.
Accordingly, the unknown girl asked Aadhar card number, PAN card number alongwith scanned copy and relevant information. But the Jawan denied to share any more information and the Unknown girl confirm that the KYC process is completed with the Jio Customer Care.
The Jawan said that, “Are you cheating me? It seems that you are a fraud and I don’t have to do anything.” So what after this? The so-called Jio Customer Care executive cut the phone. And again a call came after a while. And after 5 minutes of conversation, the existing SIM card is turned off.
So after that, during that time, that SIM card is deactivated. Then after a while, the same number of Jawan was contacted from the another mobile number and said, “you get kyc done otherwise your SIM will be permanently shut down.
Since the Jawan experienced the number deactivated just 5 minutes ago, he agreed to complete the KYC. The Jawan started updating KYC to avoid any future complications with his SIM. He believed that the person was from Jio Customer Care. Because it is very natural that no one can activate or deactivate your SIM other than service provider in general.
The jawan got a call again from the girl (so called jio customer care). She confirmed that you have completed your KYC. She also advised to download an app which is compulsorry otherwise, again you may face KYC related issue.
After downloading, the girls asked him to pay Rs 5/- as service charge for KYC update. Once the payment completed, the Jawan will get an OTP which should be shared with them. Accordingly he paid 5 rupees through internet banking. But even after completing the payment and putting OTP, his SIM card did not start.
When the SIM card not activated through my jio application, he enquired and found that due to non payment of postpaid bill the jio number has stopped. Accordingly he initiated payment but the payment failed due to insuffifient balance. But, alas ! He had balance more than 2 lakhs – how it can be insuffiecient to pay Rs 900 ?
When he checked, found that Rs 2,97,615/- debited from his account just 5 minutes ago. Such kind of fraudulent money transaction is known as SIM SWIPE. That resulted a heavy monetary loss. Whenever OTP and KYC documents received, the fraudster has swiped his SIM at his/her mobile and operated the Jawan’s bank account.
SIM was shown switched off because of SIM SWIPE happens by the fraudstars. The jawan lodged a complaint of money embezzlement from the bank account to the Cyber Crime Office, Paltan Bazar, Gauwati. And his home town at J&K. Enquiry is under process to recover but god knows, if it can be recovered or not.
Beware of such future fraud calls. Never share your PIN, Password, Card number, CVV number etc.