There is no need to do much to avoid online scam, just need to be vigilant. But unknowingly we make such mistakes due to which later lakhs of rupees are lost, recently a person tried to cancel the train ticket and lost 4 lakh rupees. Know which mistakes are heavy.
Have you ever thought that even canceling a train ticket can be so heavy that you may have to bear the loss of lakhs of rupees? No no, but now a similar case has come to the fore, so now you people also need to be alert from now on. A 78-year-old man tried to cancel train ticket through IRCTC website, but this man has become a victim of online scam, what is the whole matter? Let us give you detailed information about this.
Online Fraud: What is the whole matter?
When a 78-year-old man living in Kozhikode Vandipetta area of Kerala tried to cancel a train ticket through the IRCTC website. The scam involved a man posing as a railway employee and a fake website.
Talking about the incident, the victim said that when he was trying to cancel his ticket, he felt that he had come to a fake website. But after this, the victim received a call from a person claiming to be a railway employee, this person started giving instructions to the victim in both English and Hindi.
The victim kept following the words of this person, who called himself a railway employee, and suddenly a blue color mark appeared on the screen of this person's laptop, and then what was the control of his device in the hands of the scammers. I went. Not only this, this person also made a mistake that this person had told everything about his bank account details and ATM card number.
Meaning of seeing blue emblem?
From this mark appearing on the screen, it can be clearly understood that Malware was being installed in the device. It is generally seen that scammers install malware to take control of the victim's device.
This person realized at that time that what a big mistake had been made when a message came from the bank in which it was written that money has been withdrawn from the savings account. As soon as Basheer (the victim) saw the message on his phone, he ran towards the bank but by then it was too late and the scammers had already siphoned off Rs 4 lakh from his fixed deposit.
Played with the help of this app
When the cyber cell team of the police investigated, it was found that the scammers had downloaded an app named Rest Desk to get control of the phone. By taking access to the phone, the scammers took away a total of Rs 4 lakh 05 thousand 919 from the account.
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