Online Cyber Fraud: Cases of cyber fraud keep coming up every day. In such a situation, if you do not take care of cyber security, then you may have to suffer huge financial losses. Cyber criminals keep finding new ways to cheat innocent people.
Now cyber criminals have become so advanced that they empty people’s bank accounts without taking OTP. In such a situation, you need to be very careful. Here we are going to tell you how you can avoid such cyber fraud.
How innocent people are becoming victims of fraud?
AEPS means Aadhar Card Enabled Payment System, people withdraw money from their bank accounts through this service. This is the facility which is being misused by cyber thugs. In this system, money is withdrawn from people’s bank accounts through biometrics. This cyber fraud happens with those people whose bank account is linked with AEPS.
In this, cyber thugs can withdraw money without cheque book, OTP and ATM PIN. But one thing that is a relief is that RBI has set a limit for this, due to which all the money cannot be withdrawn.
This is how they cheat
To cheat people with this service, cyber criminals steal people’s biometric information. This also includes people’s fingerprints. Cyber criminals target these things and cheat people and steal their hard-earned money from their bank accounts.
How to avoid fraud?
- First of all, you have to secure your Aadhaar card so that no one else can use it.
- For this, first go to the official website of Aadhaar
- Here on the home page you will get the option to create mask Aadhaar and virtual Aadhaar.
- After this, the Aadhaar card can be locked by entering the mobile number linked to Aadhaar
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