Received a fraud call

[AllSeeker]

Just today couple of hours ago I received a call from this number

+91 9506282189

Where a lady, insisted that I had some unredeemed reward points for my axis bank card.

Funny thing is that all my axis cards are statement cashback cards, and its fairly straightforward thing.

So when she mentioned that I asked her "what was her system entry was telling her, like which card I've?"

She replied "Sir apane apply kiya hoga na, flipkart axis one.." and before she could even complete the sentence, call had been cut by someone (Not from my side)

Call was from UP. At least according to truecaller.

While I managed to not get victimised here, I do want to let this out here so people who know what to do with this info can know abou it.

 

[prc1990]

Just today couple of hours ago I received a call from this number

+91 9506282189

Where a lady, insisted that I had some unredeemed reward points for my axis bank card.

Funny thing is that all my axis cards are statement cashback cards, and its fairly straightforward thing.

So when she mentioned that I asked her "what was her system entry was telling her, like which card I've?"

She replied "Sir apane apply kiya hoga na, flipkart axis one.." and before she could even complete the sentence, call had been cut by someone (Not from my side)

Call was from UP. At least according to truecaller.

While I managed to not get victimised here, I do want to let this out here so people who know what to do with this info can know abou it.

Probably new way of scamming people like KYC expired, debit card blocked, discontinuation of gas connection, accepting GPay/PhonePe cashback, Winning of lottery in KBC, Receipt of expensive item from abroad and many more.

 

[AllSeeker]

Probably new way of scamming people like KYC expired, debit card blocked, discontinuation of gas connection, accepting GPay/PhonePe cashback, Winning of lottery in KBC, Receipt of expensive item from abroad and many more.

yes but it usually happens to people with SBI cards, not axis. I'm probably more offended by that

 

[AllSeeker]

On a serious note, what's important here is that there is likely data leaker somewhere in a supply chain.

 

[prc1990]

On a serious note, what's important here is that there is likely data leaker somewhere in a supply chain.

That is the biggest threat of this digital era.

 

[jatinkrmalik]

+91 9506282189

Can you add that to Truecaller as bank fraud/spam?

 

[Souvik]

Data leak is prevalent, your aadhar details are on sale, you never know if your bank's servers are compromised, until some media comes clean on it.

Its best to hence keep sub limits on your debit and credit card transactions and perhaps have most of the savings balance in FD's (just having a wall of defense to crack on) instead of letting it idle on savings as cash.

 

[souvikdey2002]

Very old trick, these scammers should learn something new otherwise with the time they will be vanished & their shutters will have to be closed.

But on a serious note, I do agree that not only our AADHAR details but also the banks database are on sale now a days.
The only way to save ourselves is not to disclose any details to anybody doesn't matter if the person claims himself/herself to be the CEO of the Bank.

 

[vaibhav111vaibhav111 is verified member.]

yeah had one incident just like that i was in bank and had some spare time it was back in october 2021 , she too said axis flipkart customer care and what not , i made her hang up instead

 

[hariselio]

for me the caller told, axis bank card and pay back points

 

[prc1990]

for me the caller told, axis bank card and pay back points

Baby scammers

 

[AllSeeker]

Can you add that to Truecaller as bank fraud/spam?

I have edited so in truecaller section.

 

[prc1990]

Received a similar call 5 minutes bank and he was asking which network does my card belong to .

 

[Sub]

Quick way to identify such scam calls - almost all of them are from mobile phones. Worth bearing in mind that you'll never receive a call from any organization's service desk through the mobile network. From yesterday's papers, using same modus operandi

Bizman Duped Of 2.4l By Cyberfraudster | Mumbai News - Times of India

An unidentified cyber fraudster targeted a 61-year-old south Mumbai businessman by luring to convert his bank’s reward points into cash, and later wi

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

 

[krishc]

On a serious note, what's important here is that there is likely data leaker somewhere in a supply chain.

data leak is there in every BFSI system chain
I remember within one of month opening my first brokerage account and investing my First MF,
I used to get so many spam calls from people claiming to be stock market experts, stock market this and that and so on..

 

[AllSeeker]

data leak is there in every BFSI system chain
I remember within one of month opening my first brokerage account and investing my First MF,
I used to get so many spam calls from people claiming to be stock market experts, stock market this and that and so on..

In that case your broker sells your info, cost of your info is Rs 7 per person.

But credit card info is little more valuable and usually not many people have access to it, bank itself will not likely leak it fearing RBI crackdown. So its either their employees/agents or your delivery people.

Considering the lady did not know anything about which card I had or which card has what system in place for rewards, I think this is likely to be latter.

 

[AllSeeker]

And yes, this is most common with SBI. I've heard of cases in my friend circle where there were fraud transactions as soon as person received their card.

 

[Ghost655]

Just today couple of hours ago I received a call from this number

+91 9506282189

Where a lady, insisted that I had some unredeemed reward points for my axis bank card.

Funny thing is that all my axis cards are statement cashback cards, and its fairly straightforward thing.

So when she mentioned that I asked her "what was her system entry was telling her, like which card I've?"

She replied "Sir apane apply kiya hoga na, flipkart axis one.." and before she could even complete the sentence, call had been cut by someone (Not from my side)

Call was from UP. At least according to truecaller.

While I managed to not get victimised here, I do want to let this out here so people who know what to do with this info can know abou it.

Can Confirm it happened with my Father's Flipkart CC they randomly called and told about amazon cashback. Got suspicious and asked some question and they hung up. I think axis cards data is leaking when applied offline.