Bangalore has been hit with a new problem.
The city police said 200 residents of Bangalore have been losing money through illegal withdrawals at ATMs, in less than a week’s duration.
The cops now suspect a nefarious gang have installed advanced card skimmers in ATMs, which can read debit and credit card information while the card is being inserted.
According to a report by a popular news channel, advertising professional, Rajith Ravi, from Cooke Town was duped of Rs. 30,000 on Monday night. He came to know about it when he received messages of withdrawal of money from his HDFC bank account at 11.53 P.M. Rajith was shocked that his debit card was in his wallet when he received the withdrawal messages. He immediately filed a complaint on Tuesday with the Cyber Crime Police.
A similar incident took place in Kyalasanahalli, where a man named Sarvesh Aradhya lost his salary of Rs. 19,500 by fraudsters on Sunday night at the South Indian Bank ATM in BTM Layout.
On Tuesday, the Cyber Crime Police registered 35 complaints from the people who had lost money due to illegal ATM withdrawals across the city.
The Cyber Crime sleuths said there has been an increase in the complaints of illegal withdrawals in Bangalore, mainly from the ATMs in BTM Layout, Hennur, Geddalahalli, Indiranagar and also a few in Mumbai and Thane.
The cops suspect the miscreants have installed skimmer devices in the slot where people insert cards and a planted pinhole cameras to record the PIN for every card used at the ATM. These skimmers will copy the details from the card’s magnetic strip once it is inserted. A tiny camera is placed above the keypad of the ATM, which records the pin number as the finger movements are captured.
