Online cheating of shoppers rises

Online shopping has come in handy for the online fraudsters to cheat the gullible people.

The incidents of online frauds are on the rise in the district. The fraudsters are cheating the gullible people having ATM cards by calling the people posing themselves as bank staff and wanted to clarify their pin number once.

Fraudsters are purchasing various products through online shopping at various prominent sites using the money available in the bank accounts with the ATM in numbers collected by cheating the bank account holders.

There was no mechanism to cross check whether the account holder who was paying money for his shopping was genuine card holder or not.

Unknown persons calling the bank account holders by introducing themselves as ATM servicemen and asking to renew their ATM otherwise it will be blocked soon due to technical problems and asking the details about their Aadhar card and ATM number to renew ATM card.

ATM account holders were asked to tell the number mentioned in the message they will receive and the amount in the bank account will be deducted and victim will receive message to this effect from the bank within no time.

Card holders will realize that they were cheated only on seeing the message they received from the bank stating that he or she was successfully purchased the items or products with the online payment using their ATM.

Vemula Rajaguruvaiah of Itikyala village in Luxettipet mandal was cheated for Rs 22,999 from his SBH bank account of Luxettipet lodged a complaint with the local police stating that an unknown person who collected details of his bank ATM card had purchased one item from online shopping site ‘Flipkart’.

‘One unknown person called with the phone number 9507206057 and introduced himself as Rahul Sharma who spoke in Hindi and asked him to renew ATM card on August18 and cheated me’, Rajaguruvaiah lamented.

One can find posters pasted in the RTC buses and stations offering online ‘relief’ services to the people those were facing problems. One woman of Mancherial was cheated for huge money in the name of offering relief to her family problems few months ago by online Baba.

Unknown persons have been calling the people saying that they were selected for a lottery or gold and asking the bank details to deposit on their names or send them to their addresses. Sometimes, asking to deposit some money to get the money or gold they got in the lottery.