Retired BOB employee loses ₹10.45 lakh to fake Bank of Baroda Facebook ad
HYDERABAD: An 81-year-old retired Bank of Baroda employee from Mehdipatnam has reported a loss of ₹10.45 lakh after unidentified fraudsters allegedly siphoned money from his savings account following a fake Facebook advertisement promising a “Bank of Baroda 808 Pension Card”.
Akbar Krishna Tadimeti, a resident of LIC Colony, Mehdipatnam, filed a complaint with the Cyber Crime on December 9, 2025, stating that the money was withdrawn without his authorisation from his Bank of Baroda account at the Savedi branch in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra.
Fraud originated from Facebook advertisement
According to his written complaint, Tadimeti came across an online advertisement on December 6, 2025, featuring the Bank of Baroda logo and a photograph of actor Amitabh Bachchan, offering an 808 Pension Card with additional benefits. He clicked the link and was informed that the “team would call within 24 hours.”
Later that evening, a caller identifying himself as Mishra from Bank of Baroda Head Office, Ahmedabad contacted him and sought to “verify account details”.
He told the police that during the call his phone “behaved abnormally”, leading him to believe it was hacked.
Six debits removed ₹10.45 lakh from account
Soon after the call, he received two SMS alerts about debits from his account. The complainant later discovered that a total of ₹10,45,024.70 had been withdrawn through six transactions on December 6.
Transaction details as per complaint:
₹2,00,003.54
₹2,00,002.54
₹2,00,008.00
₹2,00,003.54
₹45,003.54
₹2,00,003.54
The complainant said he could not note the fraudster’s phone number as his device malfunctioned during the call.
