Irda — Fake call on insurance bonus claim

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I'm Arumoy Bhowmick received a call on 14th September from [protected] a person named Ashish kumar( May be fake) claiming to be central insurance authority officer. He asked me if I have refused to claim the bonus on my premium which is given from govt in a manner which looks pretty genuine. When I said I have never hard of such bonus & neither I have refused to claim any bonus if any thinking that it may be from LIC as I have some LIC policies. Then he said to day being the last date, if I don't claim the file will be closed & the Bonus will go to agents account. Thinking that it may be some bonus from LIC I have asked him how to claim the bonus & he asked me to note down some Bonus code as he will be transferring the call to a senior officer who will explain the procedure & will ask me the bonus code. He asked me some more questions like where I was working, how much do I pay annual premium etc. When he transferred the call to other person he asked me the bonus code & put me on hold to check the system.
Fortunately/unfortunately the call got disconnected somehow. When I checked Internet about this, found lot of such complain. Thus requesting you to take appropriate action for such frauds so that they do not cheat others.

Regards
Arumoy Bhowmick