Cyber criminals have withdrawn over Rs.18 lakh from different bank accounts of Deoghar District Development Commissioner (DDC) Sanjay Kumar Sinha through phishing.
On January 16, 17 and 18, Cyber criminals have withdrawn money 15 times from DDC’s account at Project Building in Ranchi and SBI Bank branch in Collectorate of Ramgarh.
As per the cyber police sources, Sinha lodged a complaint with the Deoghar Cyber Cell police station claiming that some unknown people called on his mobile affirming that they were bank employees. Believing the accused, Sinha gave them his one time password (OTP) details, and few minutes later, the malefactors withdrew Rs 18,46,725 lakh from his bank account in Ranchi and Ramgrah.
As per the sources, earlier in October 2020, Cyber criminals have impersonated as bank officials and called on the DDC’s mobile and asserted that the bank account had expired and DDC was asked to get KYC updates. After receiving the information about Aadhaar number, OTP etc, they withdrew Rs 18, 46,725, from the bank account of Ranchi and Ramgarh.
Sources said that Cyber criminals withdrew Rs 12,25,726 from the bank account located in DDC Ramgarh and a withdrawal of Rs 6,20,999 was made from his SBI account at Project Bhawan Ranchi. Also, the DDC did not get the information about withdrawal of such a huge amount from the account.
As per the reports, two days ago, Sinha ordered one of his staff to get his passbook updated, after this he came to know about the withdrawal of money. After this, he lodged an FIR with the Deoghar Cyber Police Station. According to the sources, they could not get the information about the withdrawal due to the change of registered mobile number.
