As the number of cashless transactions has increased, so has cybercrime. One case was reported recently from Noida, in which a man lost more than Rs 1 lakh to cybercrime.
Manoj Nayar, a resident of Sector 34, had been using an ICICI Bank credit for two years. On January 3 around 9.15 pm, Nayar was taken aback when he received a message on his mobile phone notifying him of shopping transactions worth Rs 1,48,000 on his credit card.
The first transaction was reported from Switzerland, made in Swiss currency. Three other transactions of Rs 48,000, Rs 15,000 and Rs 40,000 were carried out in the Indian cities of Kolkata, Hubli and Surat. Nayar was clueless about these transactions.
Nayar, who hails from Kerela, lives in a rented accommodation in Sector 34. He told City Spidey that he called up the bank and asked it to block his card immediately. “I enquired how four transactions from one card could be made at the same time from four locations, but they had no answer to that,” Nayar added.
He said he went immediately to Sector 24 police station and lodged a complaint.
When City Spidey spoke to Vinay Prakash Singh, SO of the police station, he said, “We have registered a complaint and it has been forwarded to the cybercrime office in Sector 6 for further investigation.”
