Puducherry: As India going digital during pandemic and otherwise, online financial frauds are more prevalent across the country making the digital transactions difficult for senior citizens.
In a recent incident occurred in Puducherry, a cyber fraudulent robbed an elderly couple of Rs 9 lakhs accessing their account details.
An unknown person called Geetha, a senior citizen who resides in Rainbow Nagar in Puducherry, posing himself the staff from Karur Visaya Bank in which Geetha and her husband Vasudevan had the joint account.
Being cautious on receiving call from unknown, Geetha did not entertain the caller initially; however, the caller pretending to be the bank staff brought the old lady round by constantly calling and convincing her to believe him as a senior official from her bank.
Following this, the caller first asked for the bank account details of Geetha and her husband Vasudevan. The gullible elderly woman acted on the caller's instructions and gave him the customer ID, ATM number, CVV number, and finally the scammer got the OTP number from the old lady decoying her to activate Net Banking. In the process, the retired elderly couple fall prey to cyber fraud losing Rs 9 lakhs to the scammer.
Police have registered a case against the caller and are looking for the con. According to, cybercrime police, the cyber frauds specifically target elderly people living alone in the cities and who are digitally illiterate. Police officials say that in such financial frauds, the cash recovery process is possible if the bank or cybercrime unit is informed about the incident within an hour.