The Maharashtra cyber police department has uncovered a new kind of online scam which involves duping people into revealing their confidential banking details by exploiting a Google Maps loophole. Scammers are using the Google Maps feature that lets users edit contact information for places to to change numbers related to bank branches which Google shows as search result. Removing the official numbers, users are duped into calling fake numbers and are being defrauded thus.
Bank of India has since changed the address and contact details of the multiple branches listed on Google Maps and has advised customers to only call on numbers listed on the bank’s official website and documents.
