Aadhar linked money withdrawal fraud in Haryana, 45 victims lose money
Saturday | May 24 2025 | 12:42:20 PM
Saturday | May 24 2025 | 12:42:20 PM
New Delhi, June 10
The Haryana Police received multiple complaints from people alleging fraudulent withdrawal of money using Aadhaar card.
The accused allegedly used their Aadhar cards and cloned their fingerprints to withdraw money from their accounts from bank accounts.
According to police, the cheats allegedly bribed revenue department officials to gain access to registry documents that contained Aadhar and fingerprint details of the people
Police also said the masterminds, who also had previous call centre experience, singled out persons whose Aadhar numbers were linked to their bank accounts. Later, they used machines to clone their fingerprints from the available records.
This by far, is touted to be the biggest breach of data and fraud using Aadhar.
According to police, hundreds of rubber clones of fingerprints, whose images they copied along with names and Aadhaar card numbers, from official property registration documents in a tehsil office at Palwal in south Haryana.
The police added that through a file binder working in the tehsil office, managed to make copies of more than 2,000 registration documents and used the information to create accounts in mobile wallets in the name of the people whose fingerprints were cloned and transfer money from their bank accounts into digital wallets, from where the frauds could re-route the cash elsewhere. By the time the account holder got intimated about the transfer through an SMS from the bank, the cash had already been withdrawn.
In an Aadhaar-enabled Payment System (AePS), for wallets that offer services like bill payment and money transfer, the Aadhaar number and fingerprint are enough for a transaction to be made. For this, however, the Aadhaar card must be linked to a bank account.
The police stated that the accounts were created on platforms like Payworld and Fingpay to transfer money by this group.
The Haryana police have formed a Special Investigation Team to probe the case with the help of crime branch and cyber cells.
