ISLAMABAD – A new mobile scam has been revealed which is deprivingcitizens of money from bank accounts.
A man had reportedly been deprived of over two million rupees after heinadvertently shared personal information through a mobile phone scam.
The victim has filed a complaint with the Federal Investigation Agency(FIA) said that he received a phone call demanding his bank accountinformation.
He claimed to have received an anonymous phone call on September 29 from aperson who introduced himself as a senior government official, and told himthat his house in South Waziristan will be demolished if he doesn’t providehis personal bank account details.
This compelled him to unwittingly provide him the personal information butconsequently, the next day around two million rupees were deducted from hisbank account through a money transfer company.
The FIA has filed a case and has started further investigations, and hasalso submitted the First Information Report (FIR) in the banking court.