Pune judge loses Rs 48,000 to card cloning | Pune News – Times of … – Times of India

PUNE: A judge from a small cause court in Pune recently fell victim to debit card cloning in which fraudsters made away with Rs 47,930. The judge, S J Gharat, registered a complaint with the Deccan Gymkhana police station on Sunday.

Gharat had received an SMS on February 20 about Rs 50 being debited from her salary account at Axis Bank's FC Road branch. The money was deposited back immediately. Minutes later, Rs 1,600 was debited from the account, but she ignored the SMS thinking that the money would be re-deposited, police said.

The fraudsters withdrew more money several times till February 27, but Gharat did not receive most of the SMSs of the transactions. She saved one of them and obtained a statement of the account from an ATM. The printout indicated that 19 transactions had been carried out even though she had not used her debit card or shared her PIN or any other card verification information.

Gharat quickly blocked her card the same day, and filed a complaint with the bank. She sought an inquiry and told the bank to deposit the money in her account as she was not at fault.

"The bank has assured me that they will refund the amount, but the money has not been deposited in my account. I was directed to register an FIR. I have filed a complaint against unidentified men with Shivajinagar police station," Gharat told TOI on Monday.

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