Lucknow. Cyber ​​fraudsters have found a new way to extort money from people. They will call and ask to press nine. Then after asking for the registered name and number of the card, they will disconnect the call. After some time, the money will be transferred from your card. Former Chief Secretary Alok Ranjan has become its victim. Fraudsters obtained his information and transferred 383 US dollars. After getting the card blocked, he has filed a case in Gomtinagar police station.

Alok Ranjan, a retired former chief secretary and resident of Vivekkhand, said that he received a call at around 12 noon on July 8. The caller said that he was calling from SBI. Do you have an SBI credit card? He replied yes. To this, the fraudster said that there is an outstanding amount of one lakh nine thousand rupees on the credit card.

Asked to press number nine during conversation

Alok said that he has not made any purchase. The bill is wrong. On this the fraudster told the credit card number, which was wrong. On this Alok said that the card was not his. During the conversation he asked Alok to press nine. He also asked for the name and registered number and then before disconnecting the call he said that you should contact the bank.

383 US dollars were withdrawn from the account

At around 6.30 pm, he received a transaction message which said that 383 US dollars (approximately 32 thousand rupees) had been withdrawn from his account. Inspector Gomti Nagar Deepak Kumar Pandey said that information is being collected about the transactions made from the card.