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A group of fraudsters allegedly obtained the PAN details of some celebrities from their GST Identification Numbers, which are publicly available online, and obtained credit cards in their names..
PAN details of cricketer MS Dhoni, actors like Shilpa Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan and others were recently reported to have been misused, says Ritesh Bhatia, Founding Director, V4WEB Cybersecurity, talks to ET Now about the repercussions of the event and how we can safeguard ourselves...
This is a huge shocking incident and reports also say that this activity has impacted CIBIL score or credit score of all these personalities as well..
So with all the information, they forged PAN cards with the details of these people and the face of themselves, of the fraudsters, and they did a similar thing with the Aadhaar card and changed the address to their Aadhaar card..
Otherwise, also, we need to make sure when we are on random websites, when it is asking for a PAN number or Aadhaar number, we should refrain from giving it to them, especially when they say, we want to check your CIBIL score and things like that..
