UPI Limit Scam Costs Pensioner Couple Nearly ₹6 Lakh In Indore
Indore (Madhya Pradesh): A retired pensioner and his wife fell victim to a cyber fraud, losing Rs 5,99,842 after a scammer posing as a bank representative hacked their devices under the guise of increasing their Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transaction limits within Annapurna police station limits. According to complainant Surya Deepak Shrivastav, a resident of Sudama Nagar, he had submitted…
Indore (Madhya Pradesh): A retired pensioner and his wife lost nearly ₹6,00,000 after a cyber scammer posing as a bank representative hacked their devices to increase their Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transaction limits, according to Surya Deepak Shrivastav, a resident of Sudama Nagar. On August 5, Shrivastav submitted an online request to raise his UPI limit, and on August 18, he received a call displaying a Bank of India customer care logo.
The caller asked for his savings account details and email address, then convinced him to extend the same service to his wife. Soon after the call ended, the scammer compromised Shrivastav's phone, leading to fraudulent transactions totaling Rs 1,74,842 from Shrivastav's account and Rs 4,25,000 from his wife's account. The couple discovered the incident on September 1 while checking their pension balance via mobile banking.
Shrivastav reported the matter to the police, who registered a case and launched an investigation to trace the fraudulent transactions.
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