Frauds use AePS to steal 90k from a/c

Rajkot: A 52-year-old man was cheated of Rs 90,000 by cyber fraudsters who used his Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AePS) to withdraw money from his bank account. Vipul Mehta, a marketing executive with a private firm in Metoda GIDC, filed a police complaint.
According to the complaint, the fraudsters used his fingerprint data from Aadhaar to withdraw money from his bank account.He came to know about the withdrawal in Jan when he received a text message.
On enquiry with his bank, the Bank of Baroda, it was revealed that a total of Rs 90,000 was withdrawn in different instalments till Jan 4 this year. The bank told Mehta that the money withdrawn was deposited in the account of one Shishupal in his bank located in Bikaner in Rajasthan.
Also, all the money was withdrawn using the AePS in which biometrics is used to authorize a financial transaction.
Based on Mehta’s complaint, police have filed an FIR against Shishupal and started an investigation.