Cyber criminals siphon off Rs 3.44 lakh from retired government employee

The Jamshedpur cyber cell officials on Sunday ordered a manhunt for a gang of cyber criminals. They have allegedly used fraudulent means to siphon off Rs 3.44 lakh from the bank account of a retired government employee on Saturday.

According to the FIR, Pushkar Singh Munda who is a resident of Subhash Colony in Mango had been to the local market on Saturday evening when he got a call from a man claiming to be a bank official.

The caller who introduced himself as a senior official of SBI told Munda that his KYC formalities had to be completed and that he would face difficulty in making transactions with the bank. The caller managed to eventually take his Aadhar number and bank account number.