Mangaluru: Person loses lacs of rupees after downloading APK file via WhatsApp


Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru

Mangaluru, Nov 27: A person lost lacs of rupees from his bank account after downloading an APK file sent via WhatsApp, leading to the filing of an FIR at the Central Crime Station in the city.

The victim reported that on Sunday, November 24, he received a message on WhatsApp from an unknown number. Along with the message, an APK file named vahan.parivahan.apk was sent, which contained information about traffic rule violations. Upon downloading the file, 16 OTPs (One Time Passwords) were received on his mobile. The victim stated that he did not share the OTPs with anyone. However, messages soon followed indicating unauthorized transactions using his credit and debit cards.

The victim said, "Using my credit card, Rs 30,400 was charged on Flipkart and Amazon; Rs 16,700 was deducted from my debit card, and Rs 71,496 was transferred via Pay Later service. I immediately blocked both my debit and credit cards."

Despite blocking the cards, unknown individuals continued to use the victim’s Axis Bank account to make purchases on Flipkart, including a Rs 39,398 OnePlus mobile, a Rs 32,098 Motorola mobile, Rs 12,800 worth of AirPods, as well as Flipkart vouchers worth Rs 14,700 and Rs 29,000, and an Amazon gift voucher worth Rs 3,000. All these purchases were made using a New Delhi address. In total, Rs 1,31,396 was fraudulently transferred from his Axis Bank account, the victim stated in his complaint.

Police are investigating the incident based on the complaint filed by the victim.

 

 

  

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  • Kusuma Kumari Gunji, Nellore Kodyadka

    Thu, Nov 28 2024

    This is scary Even without sharing OTT criminals have taken money In this era of social media we need to be very careful Do not download any apps We need to be careful

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  • Anwar Dalvi, Mumbai

    Wed, Nov 27 2024

    After using the link to download the APK file we unknowingly grant the hacker permission to have access to our phone & he can remotely read the transaction OTP messages appearing on the screen + he can use our phone on his free will, so do not download any applications or open any link to install any APK files on your mobile phone. BEWARE of such softwares of 'REMOTE ACCESS' & do not grant any permissions or share any OTP's.

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai-Manglore

    Wed, Nov 27 2024

    If digitalization in financial transactions has so many loopholes to be exploited then how one can trust EVMs?

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  • Umesh Rai, Puttur

    Wed, Nov 27 2024

    for your info, EVM has no digital or internet connection.

    DisAgree [19] Agree [15] Reply Report Abuse

  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai-Mangalauru

    Wed, Nov 27 2024

    Any electronic device can be manipulated; why then restrictions for both EVM & ballot paper?

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  • Dylan, Mangalore

    Wed, Nov 27 2024

    Since 2014 the country and its citizens are used to be getting fooled & cheated. There was not much of digital cheating prior to 2014.

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  • S.M.F, Dxb /Mlore

    Wed, Nov 27 2024

    RBI kehta hai Jankar Baniye Satark rahiye....Aise kaise satark rahenge bhai? Logon ke pas RBI ka awarness msg padne ke liye time nahi hai..Sab ko amir banna hai ghar baite baite..Paisa double karna hai 24 ghanto mein....Bewakoofo ki kami nahi hai galib ek dhoondo hazaron milte hai....

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  • Daniel, Mangalore

    Wed, Nov 27 2024

    Great Digital, all linked (a/c, pan, adhaar, mobile) payment system! Then to prevent all these frauds and to eliminate cards due of misuse or loss, all information containing single chip in hand or forehead (written in the Book of Revelation Ch 13:16-18) for automatic processing / deducting like vehicle toll tags! with Digital currency and with all linked accounts can be Zeroed if carbon credit and social credit systems breached (if drive more than 15km in the name of Zero Carbon or climate crisis or socially do not behave properly.) Globalist elite (Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, Soros, Rothchilds, Rockefellars,...) enslaving Advanced surveilance control system popping up everywhere worldwide ?

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  • aaam admi, bangalore, udupi

    Wed, Nov 27 2024

    Modi ji Is so smart insted of asking authorties to take action he is telling people not to fall for such scams

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  • G R PRABHUJI, Mangalore

    Wed, Nov 27 2024

    Who's playing from behind.??? " KANADA KAI."

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  • nitin shetty, bangalore, udupi

    Wed, Nov 27 2024

    What surprises me is, when we genuinely want to transfer some 2 lakhs or 10 lakhs, the net banking system imposes a limit per transaction or limit per day and also cooling period. Then how come such huge transactions are allowed in a matter of a day or two

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  • Kiran Poojary, Mangaluru/Bengaluru

    Wed, Nov 27 2024

    As I mobile app developer I am telling you this : An app can access your contact numbers, photo, files, SMS OTP, location, network, battery percentage, phone model, Android Version etc. When you upload an App to Google Play Store, they will get to know what all features we are accessing from a user's phone and we need to declare why are we accessing those information. Otherwise they will not approve the app. That is why these fraudsters, don't upload the app to Playstore and send APK files. Most of the phones issue warning before installing APK file, but we can ignore and install APK files. APK concept is not there in iOS phones. Apple requires all app on their App Store. Scrutiny in iOS is more strict. In this case this is what happened : He installed the app by giving his basic information (obviously he entered his mobile number). Hackers got to know his installation from backend. Using his information they initiated transactions, bank sent OTPs and the installed APP sent OTPs to hackers. Now a days if u know a person's mobile number you can easily find out his UPI address since it ends with @oksbi, @ybl, @icici and couple of more. So beware of unknown APK files.

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