MANOJ SINHA
Ramgarh, Nov 16: Three people from the Kuju area under the Ramgarh district have become victims of cyber fraud. The criminals made a withdrawal of about Rs 1,90,000 from three bank accounts through the Aadhaar link.
The victims are Arvind Kishore Chaudhary, Arvind Kumar and Vijay Sahu. A case has been registered by the aggrieved account holders in Kuju OP regarding the crime.
As per Arvind Kishore, illegal withdrawals of Rs 9,999 were made from his savings account in the State Bank of India Sarubeda branch between October 14-24, which totalled to Rs 1,49,985. He could not see the withdrawal messages as the mobile was switched off. When he turned the phone on, he received the bank’s messages about the money withdrawal after which he informed the bank manager on October 25.
Similarly, money was withdrawn from the accounts of Arvind Kumar and Vijay Sahu.
In three days, Rs 30,000 were stolen from Arvind Kumar’s State Bank Kuju branch and Rs 10,000 from Vijay Kumar’s SBI Kuju branch by cybercriminals.
The Kuju police said, “We have started an investigation. The bank will repay the money if there is no mistake from the customers’ side.”
