'Your Father Asked Me To Send Money' Woman Narrates How She Almost Got Scammed By 'Uncle'
With online money transfers becoming more convenient there is also an increase in cases of fraud, where scammers pretending to be officials from law enforcement agencies try to gain access to people's accounts.
Cases have also been reported where scammers call unsuspecting victims claiming to be a friend or relative to tell them that they have transferred some money to their account and ask them to deposit the same to another account.
Call from 'Subhash uncle'
A Twitter user has shared in detail how she almost got scammed by a person claiming to be her father's friend.
According to the Twitter user, @Ishu2400 she got a call from an unknown number which was identified by Truecaller as Shubhash.
The caller told the woman that he got her number from her father and asked her to check if she received a message saying that Rs 50 was credited to her account.
When the woman, Kanika told the caller that she had received the message, the scammer informed her that she had sent another Rs 15,000 more.
The woman checked the messages on her phone and found that there was a new message saying that Rs 15,000 had been credited to her account.
When she confirmed that she received the message, the caller said her father had asked him to send a total of Rs 20,000 to her, and added that he was sending Rs 5,000 more.
'Accidentally deposited Rs 50,000'
But to her surprise, the next message she received said Rs 50,000 was credited to her account.
The caller on the other side told the Twitter user that he had sent her Rs 50,000 by mistake and asked her to transfer Rs 45,000 back to his account.
How she realised the scam
It is at this moment the woman realised that there was something fishy.
When she checked her account, no money was credited to her account and the messages she received had come from the caller's number and not from the bank.
When she told the caller that she had not received any money, the scammer gave some random excuse and hung up the phone.
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