Caution! This might happen to you: Don’t ever reveal your bank details

Mangalore: We often get messages from bank authorities and other government bodies not to reveal our personal information to unfamiliar people especially about our bank details on the phone. They also explain that any bank doesn’t seek your information on the phone. But still some people fall in to the trap of fraudsters who keep on inventing new way of duping people.

On Monday October 20, a customer of a nationalized bank lost nearly Rs. 25,000 after trusting a caller and revealing personal identification number (PIN) to a person who projected himself as a bank official.  Shashi resident of Kumpala is the man who lost the money. He has now lodged a complaint in Bundar police station.

Shashi said in a complaint filed in the city (north) police station at Bunder here that a person who conversed with him in Hindi on Monday morning, posing as an officer of Corporation Bank, sought the PIN of his account. The caller reportedly told him that Shashi's account had lapsed, and hence new number is being allotted to revive the account. For this to happen, he wanted to know the previous PIN. Although Shashi tried to explain that his account is properly run and active, the caller said he was calling from the ATM department of Corporation Bank, and reiterated his demand to know the PIN, after which Shashi revealed the information sought.

Soon Shashi received a SMS stating that a sum of Rs. 2020 has been debited from his account. Shocked by this, Shashi rushed to the bank only to know that all the money in his account that is Rs. 24,595 had been wiped out by nine different NEFT transactions for different amounts. Bundar police have filed a case and investigation is on.