NEW DELHI: Cybercrooks targeted Rajya Sabha MP and former Punjab Congress chief Shamsher Singh Dullo and duped him of Rs 27,000 on Monday. A caller, who claimed to be a bank manager, managed to convince Dullo to reveal a one-time password sent to his mobile phone on the pretext of linking his account to Aadhaar Dullo was at his Dr B D Marg residence in Delhi when he received the call. In his complaint, he stated: “I have a bank account with the State Bank of Khanna, Punjab. I received a call from mobile number ****048718 on my MTNL number ending with 1469. The caller said that my account had to be linked with Aadhaar and asked me to verify my identity through a password.” The caller told the MP that he was being given a special privilege of doing it from the comfort of his home. He asked Dullo to confirm the password sent to his registered mobile number. This password was, however, sent to the MP’s second mobile number (Airtel) ending with 4330.As soon as the MP divulged the password, the man disconnected the call. Immediately, he received a text message from the bank, informing him that Rs 27,000 had been withdrawn from his account. Dullo approached the police, who filed an FIR. “During the conversation, the caller said that he opposed the idea of Aadhaar-linkage. I, however, told him about its benefits. As soon as he disconnected the call, I got a message on my other number that Rs 27,000 had been withdrawn from my account. I was shocked as I hadn’t disclosed any bank details to the caller,” Dullo told TOI over phone.Initial investigation revealed that the crooks might have obtained information about the MP from various websites, including that of the Election Commission. “Thereafter, they seem to have initiated a fraudulent online transaction/transfer of money through net banking and called up the MP. When the transaction was processed, an OTP was sent to the mobile number linked with the account. After managing to get the MP to divulge the OTP, they carried out the transaction,” said an officer.Cops said they were trying to trace the transaction to its beneficiary and locate the IP address of the device used.