Techie suffers loss – The risks increase with the generalization of app-based payments and instant approvals, which gives fraudsters a narrow but significant window to carry out high-value transactions. (Image created using AI) A 30-year-old techie from Alandi fell victim to a remote access scam triggered by a fake traffic challan link. Instead of sending the stolen money through multiple accounts, the fraudsters spent Rs 4.

76 lakh from his bank account within minutes to buy four high-end phones. In this case, a 30-year-old resident of Khed taluka, who works in an IT company, had filed an FIR at Alandi police station under Pimpri Chinchwad police on Saturday. On June 5, the complainant received a message claiming that a traffic violation challan had been issued in his name.

After clicking on the link in the message, an application was downloaded to his phone and it was believed that he gave remote access to the cyber fraudsters.