In my primetime 9 pm show ‘Aaj Ki Baat’ on Thursday, we showed how cyber criminals tried to trap an elderly lady, Usha Shukla, in Lucknow’s Vikas Nagar by posing as CBI officers and asked her to transfer her Rs 1.5 crore of her hard-earned savings in the form of fixed deposits to a fake account. It was a timely intervention by the Punjab National Bank local staff and manager that police entered the scene and the lady was saved from being scammed. The lady got a video call from an unknown number on December 11. In the video, the gangsters posed as CBI officers and told the lady that her phone was used by her son for transferring money to terrorists linked to the Pahalgam attack.
