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According to the reports, the Indian market has apparently seen an increase in a new type of scam employing Aadhaar cards...
State Bank of India warned its customer by sending SMS stating, Dear Customer, Lock your biometric at m-Aadhaar app/UIDAI portal to prevent unauthorized access to your account..
While probing recent cases, our cyber cell of port division has come across innocent people losing their hard-earned money from their bank accounts through Aadhaar Enabled Payment Systems (AEPS) without their knowledge, from a distant place, without sharing any OTP or PIN, or downloading screen sharing apps, with neither an Aadhaar card nor its holder being present at the APES centre..
The learning is that every one of us must keep the biometrics option locked for Aadhaar authentication through the Aadhaar website or the mAadhaar app, said teh Times of India news report quoted DC (port) Zafar Ajmal Kidwai...
Locked Biometrics confirms that Aadhaar holder will not be able to use Biometrics (fingerprints/iris/Face) for authentication, it is a safety feature to stop any kind of biometric authentication...
