Cyber criminals, who hacked into the bank accounts of an engineer, have siphoned off a total of Rs. 13,71,237.

The engineer, who lost his money is Janardhan (name changed), a resident of Vishweshwaranagar in city.

Janardhan received a message which stated that Rs. 5 lakh pre approved loan was sanctioned to his credit card and a link was also sent to him asking him to submit a form to credit the same to his salary bank account. On May 23, the amount was also credited. On May 25, another loan was sanctioned from another bank.

On May 25, Janardhan received a message regarding transfer of money from his bank account. As he had not initiated the transfer, he looked into his bank statement and found that money was illegally transferred from his bank account from May 21 to May 25. In all, a total of Rs. 13,71,237 was transferred from his bank accounts.

Based on the complaint, city’s CEN Police registered a FIR on June 5.

Advocate loses Rs. 98,000

An amount of Rs. 98,000 from the bank account of an advocate has been illegally transferred to the bank account of a private company when the mobile phone of the advocate hanged                              and restarted.

In his complaint the advocate stated that on May 31, when he was browsing his Facebook page, his mobile phone got hanged and got restarted after 20 minutes. During this period, Rs. 98,000 was transferred from his bank account using Google Pay.

Based on the complaint, city’s CEN Police registered a FIR on June 4.