A 48-year-old IRS officer with the Income Tax Department lost ₹48,902 to an online reward points fraud.
Acting on a complaint by the victim, Nishi Padma, the Central Division Cyber Crime Police registered a case of cheating and under various sections of the Information Technology Act, 2000, recently.
In her complaint, the victim said that she had received a message from an unknown number claiming that the reward points from her bank were going to lapse. The message asked her to click a link and fill in the details to claim the reward on time. She followed the instructions and received an OTP which she promptly entered in the form of the link which she had opened.
