Key Points
The victim called on the customer care number available online to reschedule the delivery of the parcel..
In a recent case of online fraud, a government official lost around Rs 1 lakh to cyber scammers after clicking on a link..
But in order to complete the delivery procedure, the customer care representative asked Stete to pay a delivery fee of Rs 2 by clicking on a link he received on his phone number...
However, after paying the fee, Shete received back-to-back messages of unauthorised transactions and around Rs 99,995 was deducted from his bank account in four instalments...
While it is not new on how scammers are stealing sensitive data from users' phones using links or tricking them by asking for OTP or paying some fee, the cases of scams in which victims reach out to customer care through the numbers available on the internet are increasing..
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