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Bengaluru man falls victim to courier scam, loses savings of ₹1.9 crore

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Once I lost 4500 to scammers some 6-7 year ago when I was a financially illiterate. I felt so bad that time. I can only imagine what this man might be going through right now.

"A Bengaluru resident lost a staggering ₹1.9 crore in a sophisticated courier scam where scammers posed as Mumbai Customs officials and cybercrime police."
Read more here - https://www.hindustantimes.com/citi...s-of-rs-1-9-crore-report-101720930398648.html
 
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Card_Crafter said:
Once I lost 4500 to scammers some 6-7 year ago when I was a financially illiterate. I felt so bad that time. I can only imagine what this man might be going through right now.

"A Bengaluru resident lost a staggering ₹1.9 crore in a sophisticated courier scam where scammers posed as Mumbai Customs officials and cybercrime police."
Read more here - https://www.hindustantimes.com/citi...s-of-rs-1-9-crore-report-101720930398648.html
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There's famous quote "Money doesn't comes with wisdom"
 
I received this same call on Saturday early morning saying 1 of my courier is stuck should we send it to your home. I hadnt woken up properly yet so in half asleep mode asked which courier this was he said it was a Fedex from Bombay to Bangkok that alerted me from my sleep and immediately I cut the call
 
Never tell them your details, not even your name they will cut the call the very next minute.
 
H2O said:
Never tell them your details, not even your name they will cut the call the very next minute.
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Actually that guy knew my name he was like Mr....(myname) your courier is stuck in our office would you like us to return it to your home

I was like which courier thats when he said Fedex from Bombay to Bangkok immediately I understood something wasnt right and cut the call
 
federer.reddevil said:
I received this same call on Saturday early morning saying 1 of my courier is stuck should we send it to your home. I hadnt woken up properly yet so in half asleep mode asked which courier this was he said it was a Fedex from Bombay to Bangkok that alerted me from my sleep and immediately I cut the call
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Wake up call, huh.
 
Yesterday I received a call from Mumbai Andheri police station to let me know that a huge illegal transaction has been done from my bank account and now I have to prove my innocence. The guy on the other side was head constable Patel 😉 .. such a nice policeman, he explained me the whole issue and was with me on call for 14 minutes. Where do you find these kind of policeman these days!! Later he realised I am wasting his time and cut the call.

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Classic case of fraud nowadays
I wonder how come an employee (I assume he is educated)
Fall prey to it

This is a high time people should be aware of all this scams on ground level to safeguard themselves
 
I have been receiving automated voice calls for some time now.

"Hi, Mr. (my name), your parcel from FedEx couldn't be delivered due to some (they would mention different reasons every time) and is being returned to the source. To initiate the delivery again, kindly press 1 or else, press 2 to speak with an executive".
 
Card_Crafter said:
Once I lost 4500 to scammers some 6-7 year ago when I was a financially illiterate. I felt so bad that time. I can only imagine what this man might be going through right now.

"A Bengaluru resident lost a staggering ₹1.9 crore in a sophisticated courier scam where scammers posed as Mumbai Customs officials and cybercrime police."
Read more here - https://www.hindustantimes.com/citi...s-of-rs-1-9-crore-report-101720930398648.html
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So, dude had 1.9CR in savings and FDs????
 
The fedex fraud spam calls are increasing day by day!!
Every other day atleast one of my known elderly person contact me for the same and I am educating them to be aware about such incidents.

Most of the youth are well aware about this spam, however, I strongly urge you guys to help and make elders around your household aware about such incidents proactively so that they can keep safe.!
 
I don't understand how someone can lose money by just sharing their bank account details. Or may be these guy shared otps as well? Can someone explain?
 
scoryze said:
I don't understand how someone can lose money by just sharing their bank account details. Or may be these guy shared otps as well? Can someone explain?
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Yes, it's pretty easy to get all details and most of them already have and don't need from you. They all get stuck in the two/multi factor authentication step a.k.a OTP. This is where they need you and hence all the social engineering around it to get the OTP from you.
 
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Card_Crafter said:
I have been receiving automated voice calls for some time now.

"Hi, Mr. (my name), your parcel from FedEx couldn't be delivered due to some (they would mention different reasons every time) and is being returned to the source. To initiate the delivery again, kindly press 1 or else, press 2 to speak with an executive".
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+1 , I have been receiving the same. I keep on blocking all calls and receive calls from new numbers every-time. No same number is used again for that call.
 
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