Employees Provident Fund Organisation: Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has crores of account holders across the country. A part of the salary of every employed person is deposited in the account of the account holder. When that person retires, the account holder gets all the money deposited in the EPFO account. Apart from this, if you have needed money in case of emergency like illness, children’s education or marriage, then you can use this money. In such a situation, the money deposited in the EPFO account is considered as the accumulated capital in the life of every person. In such a situation, it is very important to take care of some things while using this account.
With the increasing digitalization in India, the cases of cyber crime are also increasing rapidly. Nowadays there are many such cyber criminals who steal their personal details from people and empty their accounts. In such a situation, this should not happen with you, so the Employees Provident Fund Organization has alerted its crores of account holders. Let us know how you EPFO account holders can somehow protect themselves from cyber fraud.
EPFO alerted by tweeting-
By tweeting on this matter from its official Twitter handle, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organization has informed its crores of account holders that EPFO is asking its subscribers to collect their personal information like Aadhaar Card, PAN Card, UAN Number, Bank Account Number. (Bank Account Number) and does not ask for OTP at all. In such a situation, do not share your personal information with any unknown person at all on such messages or calls.
#EPFO never asks its members to share their personal details like Aadhaar, PAN, UAN, Bank Account or OTP over phone or on social media.#AmritMahotsav @AmritMahotsav pic.twitter.com/vh24zDLzMh
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— EPFO (@socialepfo) November 21, 2022
Immediately report any kind of fraud to the police.
Let us tell you that it has often been seen that such fraud incidents happen to people while changing jobs. In such a situation, people take details of Aadhaar, PAN, bank account etc. from people in the name of changing the details of EPFO. After this, by misusing these details, he empties the account holder’s account. In such a situation, do not share your personal information with anyone without thinking. Along with this, if any kind of fraud has happened with you, then immediately inform the police about it.
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