While many have lost money by sharing OTPs (One Time Passwords), people from Chandigarh claim that they had just clicked on a link received for a routine task, and later, money was debited from their accounts.

In a recent case, Malkeet Singh, working as an assistant secretary with the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana, has complained to the Chandigarh Cyber Crime Police that he was duped of nearly Rs 45,000 in just five minutes, without even sharing any OTP.

“I usually shop my groceries from D Mart (a grocery store). While I was scrolling on internet, a link of D Mart popped up on my phone screen. I thought it was something related to my grocery shopping. I then filled my details as asked on my the popped up link, but then in just three minutes I received a message that an amount of Rs

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