Aadhaar linkage to banks is facilitating crimes.

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Aadhaar-link con calls may wipe out your bank balance
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What is all the more shocking is that this case pertains to a fake Aadhaar being submitted to the bank on Dr Sood’s account. The investigating officer from economic offences wing (EOW) of Chandigarh police, told Dr Sood about change in his mobile number and submission of Aadhaar on 11 May 2018. That too being an NRI, he is not required to have an Aadhaar. But before we go into it, some background.

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Speaking on the type of crime Pavan Duggal, a New Delhi-based Cyber Crime expert told Zee Business online, "The crime was done through a malware attack. The fraudsters first found the Aadhaar number of the victim. Once the Aadhaar number is available, you can fish out all information as it has your address, date of birth, father's name, etc." Duggal said that if one has the Aadhar number of somebody, which is attached or not attached to the bank account number, it doesn't matter for the cyber criminals.

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Asked about the precautions to ensure safety from such economic offense Duggal simply suggested, "Don't reveal your Aadhaar Card, PAN card or any other important credentials to anyone. Download anti-malware software on your desktop, laptop, Android or Smartphone whatever you are using to avoid fish out of data."

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The police said upon the arrest of an accused person, an aide of the accused person would take the help of lawyer and pretend to be Gulab and produce his forged documents (Aadhaar card, photo, etc.) to post his bail. On the next hearing date, the person who posted surety would not appear in court, prompting the court to issue a warrant against Gulab asking him to appear in court.

The police said that it was not certain why the accused persons had targeted Gulab or how they obtained his documents.

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Kumar and his gang used to obtain finger prints from these centres of customers coming to do transactions using skimming devices , apparatuses and chemicals needed to clone finger print biometrics, added Singh.

"Kumar also disclosed that cloning finger print was very easy by using gelatin , temperature modulators and special chemical. He learnt this technique through a demo video avail online," Singh told TOI.

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It was alleged that there was embezzlement of money meant for post-matric scholarship for Scheduled Caste and Backward Class students "by changing Aadhaar numbers of beneficiaries and transferring the money into forged Aadhaar-linked accounts which has been going on a large scale"

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Patna: Police have begun investigation after dozens of poor villagers lost money from their bank accounts shortly after they had cast their votes at a polling centre during the ongoing village council elections in Bihar. This was the second time in the past one week that the voters had to pay a heavy price literally for participating in elections.

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A similar incident was reported from neighbouring Munger district last week when several voters complained about withdrawal of money from their bank accounts after casting votes. During investigation it was found that a polling staff Ravi Kumar Singh had collected thumb impressions of the voters twice — one for casting votes and another for withdrawal of money.

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Cyber fraudsters used documents accessed from the AP registration and stamps department’s official website, IGRS, to fraudulently withdraw a total of Rs 14.64 lakh from 149 customers since May 5.

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The police seized 2,500 cloned fingerprints, Rs 3.4 lakh in cash, 121 SIM cards, 20 mobiles, 13 debit cards, a PAN card, two Aadhaar cards, four biometric fingerprint scanners, three pen-drives containing downloaded land documents, one laptop and other gadgets from the arrested.

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The mastermind, Nallagalla Venkateshwarlu alias Venkatesh, downloaded land registration documents from the official website of registration and stamps department of the AP government. He captured fingerprints and took customer service points using forged documents to withdraw funds from banks using cloned fingerprints, police explained.

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