After the electricity fraud scam, cyber fraudsters seem to have adopted a new modus operandi wherein they send promotional messages about credit card rewards and get victims to provide their card details. A DIG-rank officer of the Indian Coast Guard recently lost Rs 1.45 lakh to such a con and registered a complaint with Malabar Hill police. Another similar case was filed with the Amboli police where a working professional lost Rs 40,580.

As per the FIR filed by Malabar Hill police, the Coast Guard officer received a promotional message from Vk-iRewd that stated: “Dear user, your ICICI Credit Card Points Worth R5,884 will expire by tomorrow. Kindly redeem points in cash back by clicking.” The officer then clicked on the link which opened a page with the logo of the bank.