Pune: Impersonating ECI officials, cybercrooks siphoned off Rs3.9 lakh from an 86-year-old man’s bank account from Pashan on Aug 8.The elderly man was an engineer with a private company. He lodged a complaint with Baner police on Sunday.According to police, the cybercrooks sent him a message titled “ECI-SIR”. The complainant unsuspectingly opened and saw a message stated about a mistake in his and his father’s name in the SIR form.Police said the message urged him to correct the names by filling out an online form. It contained a link to the form. The complainant clicked on the link and an online form opened on his cellphone screen.The form prompted him to enter details, including his name, Aadhaar, PAN and bank account numbers, as well as debit and credit card details, the police said. The form also prompted him to transfer Rs5 as a fee to submit the form online.He filled in all the details and transferred Rs5 as the fee to the designated account. This enabled the fraudsters to access his banking credentials.The police said the link was actually of a remote-access software. By filling out and submitting the form, the elderly man ended up downloading the software on his phone and sharing his banking credentials with the fraudsters. Using his banking credentials, the fraudsters siphoned off Rs3.9 lakh from his bank account.
