Though whatever happened with the girl is highly unfortunate, but it doesn't make the negligence on her part any less. The RBI and all other banks have been saying for many years through various modes of advertising that one should never share the card details with anyone on phone as nobody from the bank will ever ask for them. Still, if people choose to live in blissful ignorance, then sorry to say, but they themselves are giving a weak spot to the criminals to attack.
On 1/27/20, Harish Kumar P Kotian <hpkot...@rbi.org.in> wrote: > All > > An incident came to my notice when a blind girl was cheated bya fraudster by > which she lost close to Lakh of rupees. > > She received a call on her mobile alleging that he was calling from Reserve > Bank and that her credit card got blocked.He got her to part with her CVV > and date of expiry of her card and also the OTP. > Within seconds thereafter there was a debit for that amount. > > I am sharing this incident to prevent anyone else falling prey to it. > This is taken as a authorized transaction and there is no salvage except a > hope the perpetrar is caught and the money recovered. > > While discussing this incident I was also told about an able bodied persons > who was well aware about online frauds and who was a faculty in a public > sector bank also got duped using social engineering tricks. > Therefore please exercise extreme caution while talking to people by phone > regarding any of your financial transaction. > > Also be on a guard of the apps you installing on your mobile. > > Regards > Harish > > > ________________________________ > > Caution: The Reserve Bank of India never sends mails, SMSs or makes calls > asking for personal information such as your bank account details, > passwords, etc. It never keeps or offers funds to anyone. Please do not > respond in any manner to such offers, however official or attractive they > may look. > > > Notice: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are > addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, > review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in > this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you > have received this email by error, please notify us by return e-mail or > telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any > attachments. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for > the presence of viruses. The Reserve Bank of India accepts no liability for > any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. > > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the > person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. > > -- Avichal Bhatnagar Assistant Professor at Department of English, Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College University of Delhi Doctoral research scholar at School of Humanities, Delhi Technological University (formerly Delhi College of Engineering) Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
