The casual dumping of a mobile number linked to one’s bank account could prove quite costly going by the experience of a housewife at Kollam recently.
She had a rude surprise when her bank account was wiped clean of nearly ₹8 lakh. It emerged that a mobile number linked to her account that she had not used for months enabled the fraudsters to get access to her money. The number was automatically reassigned to a new user who reset the password using the One Time Password (OTP) that the bank send to her number.
