RBI Employee In Bhopal Loses ₹2.50 Lakh To Fake Traffic Challan Link
Investigators are tracing a phishing site that mimicked the transport department portal.
Overview
- The 33-year-old, identified by police as Gaurav Tripathi, received an SMS on January 6 claiming a pending traffic fine with a payment link.
- Believing it genuine, he opened the link and entered an OTP and details on the fraudulent page, enabling access to his bank account.
- Multiple transactions soon drained about ₹2.50 lakh from his account before he reported the fraud to police.
- MP Nagar police registered a case and sought assistance from the Cyber Crime Cell to follow the digital trail of the transfers and the source link.
- Preliminary findings point to a phishing website crafted to resemble the official challan portal, with the perpetrators yet to be identified.