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28-yr-old woman loses Rs 40,000 in’s machine in NaganathpuraA28-year-old woman techie fromhas become the latest victim of a card skimming fraud.Aleem (name changed) said that on Saturday she visited an Axis Bankin Naganathpura and withdrew Rs 20,000 from there. On Monday at around 7.30 pm, she received four back-to-back messages stating that Rs 10,000 has been withdrawn from her bank account.Seconds later, she received an automated call from her bank asking her to verify if the transaction had indeed been carried out by her. She replied in the negative, which prevented more fraudulent transactions from her account.Aleem did not lose the entire amount as there was still Rs 90,000 left in it.Aleem then called her bank and requested them to block her debit and credit cards.She was instructed by them to go to the ATM in Naganathpura, use her card again and then file a police complaint.Both Aleem and the police suspect that the ATM was fitted with a skimming device and the fraudsters stole her card details.“It looks like the fraudsters even know when our salaries get credited,” she told BM.Aleem and her friend then went to the Cyber Crime Police Station where they have stopped receiving due to station’s system being affected by the Y2K bug. The police then requested her to go to the jurisdictional Parappana Agrahara police station and file a complaint. At the Parappana Agrahara police station, Aleem saw that at least six people were facing a similar situation.A woman complained about continued fraudulent transactions using her bank account details.Another man complained that he had swiped his card at a POS machine in a hospital. After that fraudulent transactions are still being carried out using his card details.The Parappana Agrahara police told BM that five cyber crime cases were registered on Tuesday. They also said cases of skimming as well as other online frauds have been registered. A senior police officer said that they suspect the involvement of gang operating from West Bengal in all these crimes. Meanwhile, the police said that as the Cyber Crime Police Station is not receiving complains at the moment, there is a beeline of victims approaching jurisdictional police stations to file complaints, especially in the tech corridors - Electronic City, Whitefield, Marthahalli, Bellandur, Jalahalli. Complaints are also being registered at the police stations in Konankunte Vidyaranyapura and Sampigehalli. “The Y2K bug will be fixed by the end of this year and the Cyber-Crime police station will start afresh from January 1,” said Kuldeep Kumar Jain, DCP Crime.