Kolkata radio jockey alleges fraudulent withdrawal of Rs. 50,000 from savings account
Kolkata, Aug 2 (IBNS): A popular woman jockey of a Kolkata-based radio station became the 77th victim of the great Kolkata bank fraud as she alleged that 50,000 rupees had been fraudulently withdrawn from her savings account on Thursday morning, reports said.
According to reports, Nilanjana Banerjee, a RJ of 91.9 Friends FM, registered a complaint with Alipore Police Station after she came to know about the fraudulent withdrawal from her Axis Bank account.
"I was at the gym in the morning when I received a message from my bank where it was informed that Rs. 50,000 was debited from my savings account at 7:51 am," Nilanjana Banerjee told IBNS.
"When I contacted my bank, they informed me that the money was withdrawn from a south Delhi ATM and then I lodged a complaint with the police as well as my bank," she added.
Police said that since Monday, 76 more customers of several nationalized and private sector banks lodged complaints of fraudulent withdrawal of money from their savings accounts.
"Around 18-20 lakh rupees of Kolkata bank customers were fraudulently withdrawn from Delhi ATMs as 77 complaints have been lodged at different city police stations so far," a senior official of Kolkata Police told IBNS.
The Kolkata Police have already formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) led by Deputy Commissioner (Cyber Crime) Santosh Pandey to probe the high level bank fraud and activated its Anti Bank Fraud wing while Delhi Police have been informed about the matter.
Investigators on Wednesday identified two ATM booths, Punjab National Bank (PNB)'s ATM counter at Mullick Bazar and Canara Bank's ATM kiosk at Golpark, from where the data of victim customers' ATM were hacked.
"At those ATMs, fraudsters used skimming device to capture details of the ATM-cum-Debit cards and micro camera to get the secret PIN codes and after cloning the cards, they withdrew money from several Delhi ATM counters," a Kolkata Police official said.
"After examining the CCTV footage of the two ATMs, we have identified the person who placed the skimmer and come to know that the device had been installed at least four times from April to July at Canara Bank's Golpark ATM," the official added.
Police have stopped all operations at the two ATMs pending enquiry when a team of Canara Bank on Thursday examined all 100 ATMs of the nationalized bank in Kolkata.
The bank, however, asserted its victim customers that the lost money will be refunded to their accounts in next seven to 10 days.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha, Image from RJ Nilanjana's Facebook profile)
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