Kanpur. In the name of activating SIM, this time cyber thugs targeted the deputy commissioner of SGST and took 7.3 lakh rupees. Cyber criminals asked for OTP from the officer, after which their mobile phone took it on the remote and stopped the phone for three days.
When he got some suspicion, he reached the cyber police station and informed about the incident and lodged an FIR. The cyber police started investigating the incident. The team is now tracing and seizing accounts in which the money has been transferred.
Rajkumar, deputy commissioner posted in SGST, told the cyber police station that he was going to Ghaziabad on 14 November 2024, during which a call came on mobile at around 8 pm in the name of Jio Customer Care. The caller said that your e -sim phone has to be activated. If not done, the phone will be closed in 24 hours.
He refused. From there, the phone was disconnected and then the call came that their phone would be closed. After this, a link was sent to activate the e-SIM on the officer’s mobile. During this time he was asked to generate OTP. According to the officer, when he clicked on the link, he asked for the OTP, then the caller asked the OTP. They called him OTP. After some time the phone stopped working on its own. According to the officer, his phone started to be operated from the remote.
Messages and calls on mobile were also stopped. According to the officer, whenever he tries to do something on the mobile, he used to hang. Told that he called the call center on November 18 from the second number, then the customer Care said that he should get the new SIM removed. There is some disturbance in his sim. According to the victim when the new sim
