Bank Accounts Of 200 Civic Body Officials Hacked, Money Withdrawn: Police
Bank accounts of greater than 200 staff of NDMC had been hacked, police stated. (Representational)
New Delhi:
Bank accounts of greater than 200 staff of New Delhi Municipal Company (NDMC) have been allegedly hacked and cash siphoned off within the first week of February, police stated on Friday.
Even though police have gained most effective two proceedings of on-line fraud from the workers, NDMC staff union says greater than 200 staff have misplaced their cash after being cheated on-line.
“We have now gained two proceedings within the subject and forwarded it for vital motion,” a senior police officer stated.
The workers’ union, in a letter to the NDMC chairman, raised the problem that its contributors misplaced cash amounting to lakhs of rupees that used to be withdrawn by means of unknown folks thru ATMs at other places.
Consistent with police, those appear to be circumstances of forgery completed by means of cloning of ATM playing cards.
The union in its remark stated, “Most commonly (those are) circumstances of frauds performed from SBI accounts. Now, roughly greater than 200 staff are struggling as they misplaced their cash that used to be illegally withdrawn from other places of Delhi-NCR and in some circumstances the cash has been withdrawn from towns in South India”.
The primary incident got here to gentle on February nine when Amir Yadav, an worker of NDMC, registered an FIR on the Parliament Side road police station and the State Bank of India, announcing he misplaced Rs 15,000 from his wage account.
“On February 2, I withdrew cash from an ATM close to Regal in Connaught Position. On February 7 at round eight.20 pm, two unlawful transactions of Rs 10,000 and Rs five,000 have been created from my account. I instantly blocked my playing cards and made an FIR,” stated Mr Yadav.
