Ahmedabad: A 25-year-old product designer from Vastrapur lost Rs 1.3 lakh after a caller posing as a Bank of Baroda representative allegedly duped him into sharing a one time password (OTP) on the pretext of increasing his credit limit.The victim, employed at a private firm near Iskcon crossroads, approached Vastrapur police after reporting the fraud on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal.According to his complaint, the fraud happened on Oct 13, when he received a call from an unknown mobile number while at work. The caller identified himself as an employee of the bank’s credit card division and offered to raise the victim’s existing credit limit from Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 2.4 lakh.During the conversation, the victim received an OTP message for mobile number registration on the BOBCARD application. The caller asked him to share the OTP, claiming that the revised credit limit would be activated shortly.After the victim shared the OTP, the caller disconnected. Within minutes, the victim received three transaction alerts showing debits of Rs 37,018, Rs 48,775 and Rs 48,871 from the victim’s credit card account. The complaint stated that all three transactions were made to NoBroker Technologies Solutions Pvt Ltd.The fraudulent transactions in the reported case resulted in a total loss of Rs 1.3 lakh.
