Team Goemkarponn
FATORDA: A Gogol resident and her father were collectively cheated of ₹10.20 lakh after cyber fraudsters allegedly impersonated Bank of India officials and tricked the woman into installing a malicious mobile application.
According to a complaint filed by Sidhali Kakodkar, a resident of Gogol, Margao, the incident began on May 30, 2026, when she received a WhatsApp message from an unknown number displaying a Bank of India profile.
The sender allegedly claimed that her bank account KYC was pending due to non-updation of government identification documents and instructed her to install an application named “boi adhar update.apk” to complete the process.
Police said that after the application was installed, the accused gained unauthorised access to her mobile device and fraudulently transferred ₹1,69,685 from her Bank of India savings account through three transactions.
Following a complaint lodged on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal, the bank successfully reversed ₹1,49,500 to her account. However, the fraud did not end there.
Investigators revealed that on June 2, 2026, the accused allegedly exploited the same compromised mobile number, which was linked to her father’s bank account, and withdrew ₹10 lakh from his Union Bank of India account in two separate transactions of ₹5 lakh each.
Police said the total wrongful loss suffered by the complainant and her father amounted to ₹10,20,185.
A case has been registered, and further investigation is being carried out by PSI Salil Gaonkar of Fatorda Police Station.
