Man duped of Rs1 lakh in ATM fraud

Panchkula, December 6

A resident of Pinjore was duped of Rs 1 lakh by miscreants using a clone of his ATM card last month. Shankar Singh, who works in a private company in Delhi, told the police on November 25 around 11:50 pm some miscreants withdrew Rs 50,000 from his bank account in five transactions from an ATM machine in Bahadurgarh. He was carrying the ATM card with him when money was withdrawn fraudulently.

Thereafter, he filed an online complaint with the bank and forwarded a request to block his ATM card. Despite this, he lost around Rs 50,000 again on the intervening night of November 29 and November 30.

He came to know about fraud through a message on his phone that money was withdrawn from an ATM at Abudullapur in Pinjore.

“On raising a complaint, bank officials told me that somebody had cloned my ATM card. I had paid for refilling a gas cylinder on November 17 through the POS machine. I am suspicious that those men, who came along with cylinder delivery vehicle, could have committed this fraud,” the FIR stated. A complaint has been registered under Sections 120B (Punishment of criminal conspiracy) and 420 (Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), IPC. — TNS