Shimla, April 7 -- In what could have been a high-profile digital heist, cyber fraudsters in Shimla tried to pull a fast one - quite literally - by attempting to transfer nearly Rs eight lakh from the bank account of Himachal Pradesh's Public Works Minister Vikramaditya Singh. Masquerading as top state secretariat officials, the scammers made a bold call to the UCO Bank's Vidhan Sabha branch, banking on panic and urgency to execute a fake RTGS transaction. But what they didn't count on was a bank manager who had sharper instincts than their script.
The imposters, speaking with confidence and urgency, claimed that an emergency fund transfer of Rs 7.85 lakh needed to be made from the Minister's account - immediately. While they sounded convi...