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Bengaluru: Cyber thieves con DGP, extract Rs two lac from his account

  •   Thu, Oct 18 2018 10:13:49 PM

Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (MS)

Bengaluru, Oct 18: In a bizarre incident that has occurred in the capital city, police, who are creating awareness among the public with regards to online fraud, have been conned by the cyber tricksters. Ashit Mohan Prasad, DGP of state internal security department, lost Rs two lac as he came into the dragnet of the sweet talk by the cyber conmen.

DGP A M Prasad has got one bank account each in Richmond Town branch of SBI and Cauvery Bhavan branch of Canara Bank. At around 3 pm on October 15, a person who called the mobile of DGP introduced himself as the official of the bank and asked the DGP to renew his debit card as its period is getting over. Prasad, who was unaware of his intentions shared his debit card details of one bank with the caller. Later, due to persuasion of the caller, he disclosed the details of his second debit card belonging to the other bank also. Within minutes after the caller ended his call with the DGP, Rs one lac each from both his accounts was siphoned off. Prasad who came to know about this, blocked both the debit cards over his phone itself. Later he reported this incident to the Cyber Crime police station.

"It is true that I received a call when I was on emergency duty of Dasara festival. As the caller said that my debit card validity is getting over, I shared the details of my card. Before I realized that I have been taken for a ride, the fraudsters had siphoned off money from my account," said A M Prasad, DGP, state internal security department.

Funds siphoned off from 27 accounts

The Cyber Crime police got the mobile number of the trickster from DGP Prasad after he filed a complaint with them. When the Cyber Crime police tracked the number of outgoing calls from the said mobile number, to their astonishment, they found that in total 27 people have been duped by the fraudster.

This is not the first time that the cyber tricksters have conned a high ranking officer of the police department. In 2015, the then DGP Omprakash was conned for Rs 10,000 by the cheat, who called him in the guise of a bank officer.
  

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  • Melroy C.F.Fernandes, Mangalore

    Sat, Oct 20 2018

    Thank you very much Ma'am for further enlightening us, ordinary citizens, on technicalities.

    Yes indeed !& despite SC order in State of Gujarat Vs Kishanbhai etc., still diary entries are not maintained as per even their own police manual .

    We have a very very long way to reach an improved state of affairs .

    Thank you again.

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  • Sanjay Serrao, Mangalore

    Fri, Oct 19 2018

    This fellow known as fool in his department! Nothing new in it!!😁😁

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  • Melroy C.F.Fernandes, Mangalore

    Fri, Oct 19 2018

    Citizens are breaking out of the shadow of subservience and servitude and asking the right questions of their employees( termed derogatorily as “public servants” - we want professionalism in work and not zombies).

    Two thumbs up and support for:

    Jenifer [had you been in an emergency and you were forced to call the DGP due to inaction by his/her subordinates, I am sure he/she would have said, “ i’m busy now” and would have cut your call and would never have had the courtesy or responsibility to call you back. Exactly right you are :when he was on “emergency duty” how dare he answer personal phone calls - will anybody suspend him or put a black mark in his assessment report , no, nobody will do that . Had a constable been reported to have done the same then he may have been warned sternly by his “superiors”.]

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  • Sarika, MANGALORE

    Sat, Oct 20 2018

    Sir, thank you for such an elaborate reply.

    The crime in question here could be simply brought under the word "Cheating" and "Criminal Conspiracy" legally written as 420 r/w 120B. Both together amounting to be Cognizable and Non Bailable.

    But as Civilians do not know this, the officers take things lightly and as you rightly mentioned of the NC "Fill -File - Forget" the F3 of the reported matter, its all a gimmick.

    The officers need to understand the system to report crime is not only to prosecute the committer of crime and give relief to the complainant, but it is "on record", during the verification process, system would reveal facts only when they are put on record(FIR). NC's go un-noticed.

    Hopefully we see some positive measure from the officer. He should make himself instrumental in this.

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  • Melroy C.F.Fernandes, Mangalore

    Fri, Oct 19 2018

    Sarika [ the investigative abilities of the police haven’t changed when compared to 35 years back , corrupt elected reps and incompetent seniours have ensured this - I am convinced that 6th std. children will do a better job at playing chor-police – i've seen that the police merely come they look ,see and they go, no evidence is collected - a cushy constitutionally secured life-long service with pension and perks and with little to no accountability, need for innovation or self-development & corrupt elected reps. are to be blamed for this state of the police service and in turn for all of this it is the foolish voters, who concentrate on non-issues, who are to be blamed ;
    FIR - First Information Report(any report filed first informing the police of an offence is a FIR); offences may be cognisable or non-cognisable(as ascertained from the schedule to CrPC); in case of info. recvd. about cognisable offence police are required to file report as per CrPC 154; in case of info. recvd. about non-cognisable (NC) offence then police are required to file report as per CrPC 155 and advise the citizen to approach the magistrate with the receipt if he wants to; Also read CrPC 190 . You may read “Cognisance of offences by criminal courts - Practice and procedure” by Sukhdev Singh.

    The reason why police simply file NC’s is because they can fill it, file it and forget it. This is due to their being : severely under-equipped & under-staffed, over-worked, there are no SOP's, incompetent, poorly trained with next to no refresher courses or continuously updating their knowledge, and the list is long. All of this , I repeat is due to the elected reps ensuring this state of affairs due to tax-payer monies being spent to appease minority and majority etc. vote-banks rather than on improving governance.]

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  • Melroy C.F.Fernandes, Mangalore

    Fri, Oct 19 2018

    Hilary D’Sa [that is what the Indian civil service does to a normal intelligent person - it dumbs them. They remain fit only for speeches and doling out “gyan”. Once IPS & IAS exams are “cracked” – they turn into clerks glued to their desks with no imagination or management abilities(they are thrust into top notch management jobs with no ground experience), conducting me –eatings upon me-eatings and photo sessions and speeches at punc-tions with little action and result – wherever there are competent IAS & IPS officers they get shunted and transferred about by the corrupt unaccountable elected reps. The lower rung of the staff(also being life-long son’s & daughter’s-in-law of the govt) being in that office for years and years actually run the show(along with local agents and middle- men and politicians) are liable to become corrupt by those who can afford to make them corrupt and also they lack any self-initiative as their efforts are largely unrecognized nor appreciated so they too go into a state of coma like inertia that afflicts their “seniors”. ]

    Therefore, there is a movement to do away with the lethargic and inert civil services and to hire professionals on a hire/fire basis being directly responsible to the elected rep. So if the professional does not perform then it is the responsibility of the elected rep.

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  • Ajay, Kallianpur

    Fri, Oct 19 2018

    Just imagine your entire biometric identity and financial information sitting in one place protected by govt employees! Even high-tech IT companies like Google and Facebook are regularly hacked despite genius employees and unlimited funds.

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  • Jenifer, Mangalore

    Fri, Oct 19 2018

    He says that he was on emergency dyt, how come had time to dig out his card and read out the number, not one but two ?

    Displays the honesty in the comment itself !

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  • Subhash Chandra, Mangalore UAE

    Fri, Oct 19 2018

    As a cop he had this kind of strong self confidence that no fraudster would dare to call him but if anyone try communicates to him then that person would be a legitimate caller. so without thinking twice he just gave away confidential details. seen most cops have this kind of attitude.

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Katapadi/Bangalore

    Fri, Oct 19 2018

    No one is exception to cyber criminals and they only mean their business to loot money form the bank account of others.

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  • Santan Mascarenhas, Kinnigoli/Mumbai

    Fri, Oct 19 2018

    Cyber thieves are extremely knowledgeable in that part of software and only people who have such knowledge can catch them. Hence, in foreign countries, after giving nominal jail term, I am told, govts appoint them to catch such thieves.

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  • Hilary D' sa, Mangalore

    Fri, Oct 19 2018

    How can a DGP rank can be so dumb.They are IPS.

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  • Eric Coelho, Mangalore

    Fri, Oct 19 2018

    These Police officers and Political leaders caution the Public about cyber crime and they themself get Jacked. REcently it happened to JR Lobo.

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  • mohan, Mangalore

    Fri, Oct 19 2018

    If common man goes to complain these police are not listening......... now it's happen to.them only....

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  • Joe Gonsalves, Mangalore

    Fri, Oct 19 2018

    Mr. Ashit Prasad is a cautious and efficient officer. It is just unfortunate that as he was preoccupied with his work the unscrupulous professional thief took advantage of the situation and cheated him. It is a question of time before the thief is nabbed.

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  • Haneef, West Africa

    Thu, Oct 18 2018

    Easy money vanishes easily.

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  • PEDDA GUNDOO, MANGALURU

    Thu, Oct 18 2018

    Its not matter of HIGH PROFILE or LOW PROFILE ! Its a matter of how you respond to the situation so wisely ! People from all of walk of the life in their life time one or two times coned for sure ! Its like #METOO movement, if some one write on twitter there are several responds will come and ! the title to be #metoobycon

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  • Sarika, MANGALORE

    Thu, Oct 18 2018

    After all we are humans.

    This increase in the dare of the con men and their cheating is the result of taking of the Civilian's complaints for granted by the concerned governing agencies.

    When civilians report the matter, if the department would have taken the complaints as FIR and not NC's, the department would have worked with the TSP (Telecom Service Provider) and zeroed the criminals and their team. Things would not have gone to this extent.

    Innocent civilian who are new to the IT advancements in Banking service find it difficult.

    Being an State with name of getting IT revolution in the country, if the officers were using the services of the civilians and the IT experts well, who, voluntarily would want to fight crime, all this would not have happened.

    I request at least the officer who has been cheating now, being of an IPS rank and of course now one among the "conned lot of the State", please instate good investigating measure in the department.

    Present the case to the Honorable High Court of Karnataka and have some revolutionary rules/laws in implementation. So that no one else looses their hard earned money or at least criminals get into hibernation with the fear of new effective laws and punishments.

    With both criminal and civil penalties on these con men, at least innocent Civilian's could be saved to some extent.

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  • SUNNY DSOUZA, MARNIMIKATTE MANGALORE

    Thu, Oct 18 2018

    If he can become a victim
    What about ordinary people
    He can recover it
    But public gone

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  • Sunil, Mangalore

    Thu, Oct 18 2018

    That's the very reason Aadhaar should be linked to mobile number. Our honorable SC should be held responsible for this.

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  • Dinesh Narayan Poojary, Kundapura/Bengaluru

    Thu, Oct 18 2018

    You mean to say if that is linked there will not any frauds anymore?
    Remember friend 'Thieves are the smartest people without any fear on this planet' that is why police are coming after the crime. See in this case a DGP also got fool to share his debit card information over the phone.

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  • V. Rama, Kadri

    Fri, Oct 19 2018

    What connection does adhar have with this fraud. How would it check this fraud.

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  • AMAR NATHAL, MANGALORE

    Fri, Oct 19 2018

    Your logic is illogical.

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  • Sunil, Mangalore

    Fri, Oct 19 2018

    It's difficult to duplicate Aadhaar Card. You can't have 2 Aadhaar cards. Other ids are little easier to make and difficult for Telco's to check authenticity.

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