Illegal withdrawals at ATM centres: People are losing money again!
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| 12/06/2013 04:18 PM | 
Three customers of HDFC Bank found money withdrawn using their debit card in Greece while all of them were in Mumbai. Is this limited to just one bank?
It is happening again. Somebody is withdrawing money using peoples' debit or credit cards from several places across the world. According to our information, at least three
customers of HDFC Bank working in same office at Mumbai reported cash withdrawal in Greece by using their debit cards.
It is happening again. Somebody is withdrawing money using peoples' debit or credit cards from several places across the world. According to our information, at least three
customers of HDFC Bank working in same office at Mumbai reported cash withdrawal in Greece by using their debit cards. While all the three were in Mumbai, here is a message received by one of them. It says "Thank you for using your HDFC Bank DEBIT Card ending xxxx for Rs9103.98 towards ATM WDL in GEORGIOUPOLI at GEORGIOUPOLI on 2013-06-10:20:48:15."
HDFC Bank, when asked said, "Prima facie, it appears that unsuspecting customers across several banks have fallen prey to a skimming attack by fraudsters. As it involves more than one bank, it would only be fair if we comment further only once we have ascertained the facts. We would like to state that our system is secure and this matter has nothing to do with the recent system upgrade," HDFC Bank said in an email reply.
Last week, HDFC Bank took a two-day's break to upgrade its system. During this period the bank's customers from across the country were not be able to do shopping, both online and offline, ATM transactions, phone banking, net banking and mobile banking as well as booking of term deposits through online banking.
According to a report from The Hindu, several customers of State Bank of India (SBI) from Ganjam, Gajapati and Kandhmal districts in Odisha have alleged that money had been withdrawn illegally from their accounts. Most of these illegal withdrawals have been made through ATM centres in Indore and Bhopal. It was suspected that a well-organised racket was behind this, the report says.
Similarly, according to a report from the Times of India, a Tardeo-based businessman has also alleged that his wife's credit card had been used in over 20 transactions within 12 hours across four continents to run up a bill of over Rs2 lakh, while the family was in Mumbai.
The businessman, found alerts from the private bank about the 20 transactions between December 13 and 14 across Australia, Hong Kong, the US and several countries in Europe at apparel, computer, pharmaceutical and departmental stores, to buy airline tickets and procure services and also direct marketing totalling Rs2.06 lakh. He or his wife had not received any SMS alert about the spend varying from .01 Australian dollar to buy medicines, $607.96 in a departmental store and Euro 817.01 to buy airline tickets, says the newspaper report.
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