Cybercriminals constantly find new ways to cheat people. One such incident is shocking for crores of SBI users. Hackers are taking advantage of a technical flaw in SBI ATMs. Hackers are defrauding people’s debit cards through this bug. Several such cases have come to light in Kerala, which have been posted by users on social media platforms. According to the report, hackers have done this fraud from many SBI ATMs in Thiruvananthapuram.
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Taking advantage of this technical glitch in State Bank of India’s ATM machines, two people have committed a fraud of Rs.2.52 lakhs. The fraud is done through stolen debit cards, leaving no one with a clue. According to the report, scammers first steal people’s debit cards. After this the ATM takes advantage of the machine’s technical fault and withdraws the money. Normally, as soon as money is deducted from any account, the user receives an SMS, which contains the information that the money has been deducted, but due to this technical glitch, neither the money is deducted from the user’s account nor the message is sent to them. . However, the money disappeared from the ATM machine.
What is a technical defect?
Money is withdrawn after entering the card and PIN in SBI or any bank’s ATM machine. Hackers also follow the same process, but while withdrawing money they leave a note in the machine, which causes the ATM machine to think that the account has not been withdrawn and the rest of the note is returned to the machine. Due to which money is not deducted from one’s account, but money disappears from the ATM machine.
The technical glitch came to light when the bank found that money had been withdrawn from ATMs but not from someone’s account. After this, when the bank employees checked the CCTV footage installed in the ATM machine, it was found that the scammers had very cleverly taken advantage of the time-out technical glitch to defraud the bank. Two people were suspected after committing this kind of fraud with several ATM machines. It was later revealed that they were doing all this using stolen ATM cards.
What should you do?
- If your debit or credit card is lost or stolen, contact the bank immediately and block it.
- Check your bank statements regularly. If any unknown withdrawals are found, contact the bank.
- If the money has been withdrawn from the bank and you have not received the message, contact the bank and update your mobile number.
- While updating mobile number, please tick consent to receive messages related to withdrawal and other services.
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