Cyber Frauds Withdraw Over Rs 30,000 From Odisha Man’s Account; Know Who They Targeted

Bhubaneswar: Cyber frauds have struck again in Odisha. And this time, they succeeded to dupe a bank official.

The online fraudsters managed to withdraw Rs 30,023 from the account of Rabindra Nanda, a manager with Indian Overseas Bank in Bhawanipatna, on December 31, police said.

The withdrawals took place in three ATM transactions — Rs 10,000, again Rs 10,000 and then Rs 10,023. Nanda blocked his debit card after he received SMS alerts about the withdrawals.

He has lodged a complaint with the cyber crime and economic offences (CC&EO) police station in the district.

Nanda told the police that after verifying the transactions, he found that the money was withdrawn from an ATM in Kolkata.

He said that he had not shared his card details with anyone and suspected that the cyber crooks cloned his card to withdraw the money.

Last month, cyber criminals withdrew Rs 10.10 lakh from the account of the wife of a senior IPS officer.

According to NCRB data, Odisha reported 362 such frauds in 2020, 331 in 2019 and 204 in 2018.