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@aagehamesha
Scammers have found out a new yet appealing way to befool mobile number users.They fabricate a story to trap the people.Sometimes even the educated people also get trapped because of fraudulent calls.
The whole scenario is like that a person receives a phone call on his mobile number.Some random lady voice on IVR speaks to him that all sim cards registered under his name presently gonna block after 2 hours.
Also he got an option to press 9 to know more.He immediately pressed the desired key and then another lady , this time real one, appeared over phone call and told him that due mass reporting from many people all numbers under his name will be blocked.The reason for this, as told by her, was the sim card number which was being used to harass people over text messages which is illegal.
She spoke out a random 10 digit number and told that the number belonged him,the victim of the story.Upon hearing, the person asked her that he was not involved in this matter at all and the number which she had uttered didn't belong to him.Someone might had stolen his personal credentials and doing all this sort of things.
"I am forwarding your call to the andheri police department", muttered the lady.
She told him to tell all this to them and get the clarification letter from them in order to prevent the immediate mobile number blocking.If they get convinced and send the clarification letter to the telecom regulatory authority. The number which is the real and personal mobile number of the victim won't be blocked and only the number which had spoken out earlier would be blocked.
After the call got transferred a male voice shout out loud, " Mumbai Police ".
The whole scenario was told by the victim to that random man and after a long talk he then had a 44 minutes video call with him, the man in formal attire.
He was somehow made to share his personal details like aadhar card ,mobile number , family member details etc.The person told him not to share this incident with anybody. He asked about his financial inventory and further told him that his bank account number is in link with some malpractices which are illegal.
The man said ,"Tell me the amount in your bank and send me the screenshot of the same ".
Then the victim told him that he rarely uses bank for transactions he uses cash to buy groceries.
But when the scammers didn't agreed upon him then the victim said, " I only use Paytm and that too rarely".He then sent him the screenshot of the account balance .The balance was not much it was just 2 rupees.
Then the scammer seem to be convinced by this and told him that he would receive a copy of clarification letter at his address and dropped the video call.
After 1 hour the victim hovered onto youtube and searched for "Telecom regulatory Authority of India calls for blocking sim card in 2 hours ".
He was astonished and tongue-tied to see a bunch of videos informing about the fake scam call in the name of Telecom regulatory authority of India.Then he realized that he had been victimized and it was too late for him to do anything because personal details along with 44 minutes interative one side face video call session was smoothly recorded and stored at their end.Unfortunately, the victim didn't capture the recording of video call.The victim didn't suffer from financial loss but his personal details is still with scammers.His face was visible to scammers throughout 44 minutes long video session.
This video is for public welfare. Listen to the audio recording. Listen to this brief conversion between scammers and victim and safeguard yourself from such fraudulent calls.
Note: Some portion of the recording has been edited out to maintain confidentiality of the victim.