Rajkot: A 33-year-old private firm employee from Ishwaria village in Paddhari taluka of Rajkot district allegedly lost Rs 1.68 lakh in a suspected mobile device hacking incident in the early hours of Sep 21.The victim, Dhaval Dobariya, who works at an engineering firm in Paddhari, discovered the fraud around 2am after receiving automated transaction alerts on his mobile phone. On checking the notifications, he found that three unauthorised transactions had drained Rs 1.68 lakh from his bank account within seconds.Police suspect that the perpetrators gained unauthorised access to his mobile phone, possibly through a malicious application concealed on the device and introduced via social media, or by exploiting another digital vulnerability.Following Dobariya’s complaint, police registered a case under Section 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Section 66D of the Information Technology (IT) Act.Investigating officer M G Chauhan said a technical investigation is underway to determine how the accused compromised the victim’s mobile phone and carried out the fraudulent transactions.
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