BAHAWALNAGAR: Two cases surfaced on Friday where fraudulent calls were made to people seeking their bank details.

In the first incident, Muhammad Yousaf, a school teacher of Chishtian, received a call by a woman who tricked him into divulging his bank account details. Later, around Rs233,000 were transferred from his account.

Yousaf said a woman had called him a few days ago claiming to be a bank representative. She told him that in order to safeguard their customers against online frauds the bank was collecting data of its customers. He was asked the pin code of his automated teller machine (ATM) card and other details of his bank account, he claimed.

In the second case, Liaquat Ali, a retired government official, received a call by a man claiming to be an official of a security agency. The man asked for Ali’s ATM card and bank account details after which the entire amount of Rs300,000 in his account was withdrawn.

The affectees have appealed to the chief justice of Pakistan for help in retrieving their money.

Published in Dawn, November 10th, 2018

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