Father lost 10Lakhs opening an apk sent by a scammer on whatsapp
My father became a victim of cyber crime an hour ago. Someone called him claiming to be a flipkart representative and asked him to open the file he sent to complete the payment. Even after teaching him so much about not paying anyone like this he didnt pay attention and downloaded the apk.
He soon lost 10lakhs from his account.
Currently, we have deactivated all his accounts by contacting icici and called 1903 for cyber crime report.
This is a very huge amount. Are there any ways we can get the amount back?
Update: Registered an FIR and we are asked to submit the FIR copy to ICICI branch. They claimed that they will be freezing the transaction. Lets see where this goes. Any help will be appreciated.
It wasn’t just the APK download which caused this. The scammer also asked him for some card details which he gave. Rookie mistake. And then he was sent few OTPs. My hunch is that the app traced those OTPs