Chennai:Four persons including Two doctors duped of Rs 3.5 lakh on pretext of updating PAN card

Chennai: Four people including two doctors have been allegedly cheated of Rs 3.5 lakh by a fraudster on the pretext of updating their PAN cards.  

As per a media report in the Times of India, the accused collected the bank details of the complainants, citing the need to update the PAN cards of the latter.  

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One person has been arrested by the cybercrime wing after the complaint has been filed. 

In one of the incidents, a fraudster sent a message to a doctor from Kolathur and asked him to click on a link, claiming that it would enable the doctor to update his PAN card. The doctor clicked on the link, accordingly.

However, after that, the accused swindled an amount of Rs 2 lakh from the bank account of the doctor. The doctor then eventually filed a complaint with the police, following which he was arrested, reports the TOI. 

The accused has been identified as a 21-year-old Abhishek Jain. Three more complaints of a similar nature have also been raised. 

The police said that inspite of creating awareness, educated people are falling prey to such frauds. A senior cyber official told TOI, "We keep explaining about the different modus operandi of online fraudsters and urge them not to share any OTPs or CVV." The officer added, "Earlier it was only senior citizens who were falling victim to such tricks, but the professionals seem to be their main targets, as in their busy schedule they never bother to check with their bankers and disclose their full details."

The Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported about a similar incident of fraud where an online fraudster cheated a 44-year-old woman doctor from Versova through Gpay and had taken Rs 1.48 lakh from her bank account. 

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