Today cyber criminals rob people of their hard earned money. They are targeting the common man by trying new tricks. Rs 13 lakh of an elderly man from Hyderabad was saved but this does not happen with everyone. The case is from Hyderabad where an elderly man was digitally arrested by cyber thugs and he reached the bank to withdraw money. Meanwhile, a bank officer Surya Swati at AC Guard branch in Hyderabad managed to save the senior citizen from fraud of Rs 13 lakh.
Cyber thugs had targeted a 61-year-old child specialist, he is a very old customer of the bank. The senior citizen was told that he has been digitally arrested and he was asked not to tell anyone about it. The customer reached the bank and told a colleague that he wanted to withdraw the money by breaking the fixed deposit.
Colleague Surya Swati D saw that the customer was tense and asked him what the matter was. The customer said he needed to withdraw the amount for personal reasons. Not convinced, the bank associate took him to the manager. Branch manager Kumar Gaur said the customer told them he was planning to buy property.
When asked where he was buying the property, the customer said he had not seen it yet, Ms Swati told NDTV. This made the elderly man more suspicious. Bank staff said they asked the customer to bring a family member along. The bank manager said we refused to transfer the money for three days.
The next day, the elderly man came to the bank again but instead of going to the old employee’s counter, he went to another counter. But he too knew about this. The branch staff was alerted about the elderly customer. On his 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.
He then connected her to the national helpline 1930 for reporting cyber crime, where she was told that there were others like her who were 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 disconnected the call of the cyber fraudsters. The customer has said that during his multiple visits to the branch, he was on call with the fraudster who kept telling him not to trust the bank employees.
