The Cyber Crime Wing of Tamil Nadu police has issued an advisory on new modus operandi of cyber fraudsters.
Recently, a complaint was received on a financial fraud in which customers of “India Post Payments Bank (IPPB)” were contacted through SMS containing malicious links to their mobile numbers.
Fake SMS
The SMS said: “Dear customer, your India Post Payments Bank account has been blocked. Please update your PAN number.” and contained a link that redirected the victim to a fake webpage visually similar to the IPPB mobile banking site and asks for account number, customer ID, mobile number, date of birth, PAN and Aadhaar.
After providing the details, it will ask for a one-time password (OTP) from the customer. As soon as the OTP is entered, the amount gets debited from the account, the advisory said. Additional Director-General of Police, Cyber Crime Wing, Sanjay Kumar, appealed to the public not to click on any links received from unknown sources and also not to share OTP with anyone over phone, message or phishing websites
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