VADODARA: Did any unwarranted beneficiary get added to your net-banking account? Quickly remove the account and notify cops else you might lose your hard-earned money.

Cybercrime sleuths have actually discovered a couple of grievances where victims lost lakhs to conmen in minutes.The occurrences have actually raised concerns over safety of net banking which is extensively utilized by individuals in addition to business people.

As per the problem, an unidentified account got included as a beneficiary in the victims netbanking account.

The victim didnt at first pay attention as he felt there must be some error, stated Hardik Makadia, assistant commissioner of cops (cybercrime).

But after some time, lakhs were moved from the victims account to the conmans bank account.

Surprisingly, the victim didnt get OTP to approve the addition of the beneficiary.

We received 3 such complaints of recipients getting added without approval in the city, he included.

Cyber frauds typically detach and switch sims of the victim to guarantee that she or he doesnt get OTP.

In the past, the police officers have busted gangs that utilized to get the identity documents of the victims and after that look for detaching their sim cards.

The fraudsters then bought new sim cards in the victims names and connected it with their net-banking accounts to siphon money.By the time the victims learned that their sims had been swapped, they would have lost their cash.

But in these cases, sim cards of the victims were quite active.

We have actually now written to the banks to determine if this is any technical loophole that the cyber frauds utilized to include themselves as recipients without approval, Makadia informed TOI.The authorities stated that the net-banking users need to frequently keep a track of recipients in their accounts.

Those accounts that arent used much for deals need to be deleted.