Mumbai: The presence of mind of a 66-year-old Chembur resident saved the elderly from being conned by a cyber fraudster who posed as a restaurant executive.
Recently, V Narayan was browsing the web for ordering food online, when he received a call from the fraudster who offered two free thalis on ordering one meal.
Subsequently, the caller sent a link to Narayan, asking him to share his bank details for paying the nominal booking amount of Rs 10.
While filing the details on the link, the sexagenarian spotted something unusual and immediately backed out of the process.
Recounting the incident while talking to The Free Press Journal, Narayan said, “I was surfing the internet on August 23, to check if food could be home delivered. Identifying himself only as Deepak, the person claimed to be calling from the Bhagat Tarachand restaurant. Giving the special offer of two thalis against the order of one, he flawlessly recited the menu. Then, he texted me a link, asking to make a booking amount of Rs 10 through debit or credit card, while he would hold the call.”
“I told him that I will read the link details and would get back to him, but the caller insisted on holding the call. Whenever I feed the CVV number of my bank card while doing any transaction, it never shows the numbers on the screen. There are simply star marks on the screen which is basically a security feature.
“But the moment I keyed in the CVV number on the link provided by Deepak, my CVV digits were displayed…
