As soon as I opened the message in my mobile inbox, I lost money from my account.

Jalalpur Ambedkar Nagar. After receiving the message about OTP verification, before the consumer could understand anything, the OTP was automatically debited and Rs 16,000 went missing from the account of the Jalalpur municipal councillor. Former councilor Ramesh Maurya, a resident of the city’s Osmanpur Mohalla, said an OTP number arrived in his mobile inbox and after seeing the message, the OTP was activated automatically. To which he did not pay attention. After some time, when he went to the market to shop and opened Google Pay to make online payments, more than Rs 16,000 had disappeared from his HDFC and SBI accounts four times. When the victim investigated, it was found that the purchase had been made from his bank account. The victim has complained online in this regard.