Hyderabad. Today cyber criminals cheat people of their hard earned money. They are targeting the common man by trying new tricks. An elderly man from Hyderabad saved Rs 13 lakh but this does not happen with everyone. The case is from Hyderabad where an elderly man was digitally arrested by cyber thugs and he went to the bank to withdraw money. Meanwhile, Surya Swati, a bank officer at AC Guard branch in Hyderabad, managed to save a senior citizen from a fraud of Rs 13 lakh.
The cyber thugs had targeted a 61-year-old child specialist, who is a long-time customer of the bank. The senior citizen was told that he had been digitally arrested and was asked not to tell anyone about it. The customer reached the bank and told an associate that he wanted to withdraw the money by breaking the fixed deposit.
Associate Surya Swati D noticed that the customer was stressed and asked him what was the matter. The customer said that he needed to withdraw the amount for personal reasons. When she was not convinced, the bank associate took her to the manager. Branch manager Kumar Gaur said the customer told him he was planning to buy a property.
Ms Swati told NDTV that when asked where he was buying the property, the customer said he had not seen it yet. This raised more suspicion on the old man. Bank employees said they asked the customer to bring along a family member. The bank manager said that we refused to transfer the money for three days.
The next day the old man again came to the bank but instead of going to the old employee’s counter, he went to another counter. But he also knew about this. Branch staff were alerted about the elderly customer. On her third visit, Swati showed the customer an article on PM’s Mann Ki Baat where he said there is no such thing as digital arrest.
She then connected him to the national helpline 1930 to report cyber crime, where he was told that there were others like him who had been duped in the name of ‘digital arrest’. After three days of torture, the elderly customer was convinced that he was on the verge of being duped and he disconnected the cyber thugs’ phone call. The customer has stated that during several visits to the branch, he was on a call with the scammer who kept telling him not to trust the bank employees.