BENGALURU: It’s an embarrassment Karnataka police could well do without. The city’s seniormost cop and head of the state police force lost Rs 10,000 to a phishing scamster. The fraud happened in April and the culprit was caught and was produced in court on Saturday.
It’s ironical considering that Bengaluru police have been repeatedly warning citizens with alerts not to fall prey to phishing scamsters and give away their bank account information to unknown callers.
DGIGP Om Prakash perhaps didn’t follow this advice and gave his debit card details to a fraudster who, posing as a private bank staffer, called him in April second week.
The fraudster told him he needed his personal details for a debit card renewal. The officer shared his card number and other details. Within a few minutes, he got an sms that Rs 10,000 had been debited from his account.
Soon after the incident, Prakash approached the cyber crime police. According to sources there, investigators tracked down the suspect’s mobile phone signal and arrested Ashraf Ali, who is from Delhi but operating out of Chennai.
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