Nashik: Cybercrooks cheated three people of Rs 8.5 lakh, the cybercrime police said.According to the officials, the victims have claimed that they received calls from unknown people pretending to be bank employees, who allegedly warned the victims that their credit cards would get deactivated. The callers managed to get all vital information about the cards and spend the money.The police said Balasaheb Jadhav, a 57-year-old resident of Nashik Road, and two others received calls from the individuals pretending to be bank officials between June and December 2023.“The crooks said they were calling from a private bank , in one case, from a nationalised bank. They talked to three people and warned that their credit cards were about to expire. They managed to extract all card details and even the one-time passwords,” the police said.“The victims could have avoided being cheated if they had only read the OTP messages clearly. In case of shopping, a bank message clearly says that the OTP is for shopping for a certain value, or the OTP is for confirmation etc. If the message was not what they had opted for, then they could have avoided sharing the OTP,” said the officer.“We have registered a crime under section 420 of the Indian Penal Code, and 66D of IT Act,” the police said.

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