Pregnant beneficiary of govt scheme defrauded of Rs 18k by ‘cyber scammer’
According to the victim, she received a phone call Wednesday from an unknown number. She was taken into confidence after the caller allegedly read out details of her Anganwadi registration for the maternity scheme.
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The victim said “assuming the call to be genuine”, she shared the bank account details of her husband and received a message that a sum of Rs 18,000 had been debited from the account.
A pregnant beneficiary of the state government’s maternity assistance scheme in Karjan taluka of Vadodara was allegedly defrauded of Rs 18,000 after a caller, who identified himself as an Anganwadi officer from Gandhinagar, lured her into sharing the bank account details to execute an unauthorised financial transaction.
According to the victim, she received a phone call Wednesday from an unknown number. She was taken into confidence after the caller allegedly read out details of her Anganwadi registration for the maternity scheme. The caller then allegedly enticed her to share the bank account details by promising to transfer the government benefit through a direct debit policy.
The victim, who approached the Karjan police to report the fraud, said, “He told me that the account number in which the government benefit for pregnant women has to be transferred is showing as inactive and he needed an alternate account to transfer the benefit of Rs 12,500”.
The victim said “assuming the call to be genuine”, she shared the bank account details of her husband and received a message that a sum of Rs 18,000 had been debited from the account.
“I did not suspect the call to be fraud as they read out my Aadhaar number and other details that I had submitted at the Anganwadi. I also did not call my Anganwadi coordinator as I trusted that the call did sound like (from) an officer of the higher department. We reported the case at Karjan police station and they have asked us to lodge a cyber complaint on the helpline number to proceed with the action,” the victim said.
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