[Resolved]  Airtel - Lottery Win — Phone Phishing Incident

Phone Phishing Incidnet — Got a call of winning a lottery

I got a call from following phone number greeting me with 25 Lac Lottery Win and Asking me to transfer 50K to his account in order to get that lottery amount. He was taking in Haryana Hindi slang. Please beware of these fraudsters lurking around.

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I got a similar call yesterday night from [protected] introduced himself as vijay kumar and told me that i had won a lottery of Rs.25 lac from airtel.
Then he asked me to deposit 12700 as deposit. He told me the cas will be given to you in 2 installments and a team will come to give you the money. Then when i was searching the site i found out the number is from outside country and was fake. Please guys beware of such calls and suggest how to resolve this issue. These calls are increasing day by day everywhere.

i got a miss call at 7.46 am on 9/5/11 from the following no.[protected], when i saw the missed call i called him than a person replied to me he is speaking from airtel company and told me "you have won Rs 10 lacs by a lotary, many congratulations". than i asked him how it is possible when i never perticipate in any contest, than he replied me "a contest had been played at the time of cricket worldcup by the some companies these are- airtel, idia, reliance, vodafone, tata, each comany had given thier 10 thousand no. for the contest and at the end of cricket worldcup your no. has choosen, have you not seen your no. in TV it has been showing since last 4 days, please tell me your name and address".
After some time i searched the code it was the code of Pakistan,
We are the your customer so why you people not taking it as a serious matter of fraud. we lost our balance because of your service, why are you not stopping this type of calls which have been called by out side the country, why are you not stopping these no. when you have lots of complaints about these type of no..
Please take some actions against these fraud numbers its a very serious matter .

I faced the same problem. i got a miss call at 7 a.m in the morning on 2/8/11 from the no. [protected].
when i called back i was informed that i had won 10 lac.The person spoke in a haryanvi-hindi slang. He told me to contact the supervisor on an isd no. The person told me to to deposit 15, 700 in an account after which i would recieve the prize money. That was when I understood it was fraudulent and stopped answering any more calls from that no. or rather "missed calls". This is not expected from a renowned company like airtel. someone should put a n end to this.

Hi, I have also faced similar situation, I got a miss call from no"+923 and when I call him back, he said I have won Airtel lottery of worth 25 lacs. You need to call no 009230 for further clarification. When I call to this number, person asked my name & account number to transfer the account and asked me to switch off my phone till morning.

I was confused and to re-validate, I surf the net and found to be fraud.

I have informed to Vodafone subscriber and bank helpline for the same.

hi everyone even i got a missed call from [protected] on 21 may 2012 and he said u have won prize of 25lac and to claim your amount he told me to contact [protected] this person told his name as "Rohit Sharma"
and he told me to deposit 20, 000rs as tax to Indian Gov then after some time he will transfer 25lac into my account and when i said him to give his address of head office he told me that its in Delhi and right know he is very busy as he has to transfer money to somebody's account . . .

guys please don't even make a call back to such people it take 10rs per minute and dont give your account number .

These missed calls are system generated.I came to know this because i have 2 numbers in

sequence and i got missed call on both of them one after another..that too within less than a

minute..this happened 3 to 4 times...so beware...