Humanity has gone for a toss once again. A gang of cyber criminals in Hyderabad have targeted IT employees who have died by accident or die young. Gone are the days when people used to sympathize with the family when there is a death in the family. But the situation has changed now, fraudsters target the deceased people’s information and trick the family who has already lost a family member and mourning for them.
The new kind of fraud which has come into light through the Cyber Crime Police investigations that the details of the bank accounts of the deceased were obtained by a 6 member gang.
This gang targets IT employees, who have died by accident or die young and find their details by looking into their profiles and their name on social media and find personal and career details. Since the salary of IT, employees are huge and the credit score or sibyl score would be good enough. They find out details in some way or the other.
This gang created duplicate documents, get duplicate SIM’s and obtain loans and credit cards from the banks for which the deceased family would be troubled by the recovery team. It would come as a shock to the family who is already filled with grief.
After this kind of fraud has been found by the Cyber Crime police they have advised that everyone abstain from sharing personal information with anyone, and also check the privacy settings on the social media at least twice a year. Strangers should not be given any information regarding phone numbers,
In case of sudden death and the wake of cybercriminals cheating the bank accounts of deceased IT employees, the information should be passed onto the authorities of the companies or banks. The families should ensure that all the procedures and their paperwork would be completed at the earliest so that there is no scope of any kind of fraud. The companies or the family members of the deceased should inform the bank authorities of the death of the accountant. By doing so, it will not be possible for the authorities to keep a close watch on the accounts and defraud prepaid loans and credit card debts. Also, do not tell bank staff if they have the bank account number, customer ID and e-mail ID. You need to check whether the person asking for the details is correct or not. To avoid fraudsters receiving credit and debit cards from others, more vigorous measures should be taken to issue credit and debit cards online and alert bank staff to fraud.
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