One of the most renowned faces in Bollywood Annu Kapoor has appeared in various bollywood movies and series. Annu Kapoor became the victim of cyber fraud. He lost ₹ 4.36 lakh to an online fraudster on the pretext of getting his Know Your Customer (KYC) details updated with a leading private sector bank, but timely action by the police will ensure he gets back ₹ 3.08 lakh, an official said on Saturday.

The veteran actor on Saturday took to Instagram to express his gratitude to the Mumbai police for immediate and effective action and for saving his money.  As per the police, the actor who resides in Andheri West, on Thursday received a call from a person who identified himself as Krishnakumar Reddy, an executive from the HSBC Bank head branch, where Kapoor has an account in the same bank.

As per the officials, “He told the actor that the KYC update on his bank account was pending and if he failed to complete the process immediately, the operation of his bank account would be suspended. After this under the pretext of completing the process Reddy managed to get all his banking details and the OTP from Kapoor.”

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After this Annu Kapoor received another call from the Bank’s customer care informing him that the bank’s vigilance system had detected that his bank account had been compromised and ₹4.36 lakh were fraudulently transferred from his bank account. The bank also deactivated Kapoor’s bank account. The actor immediately rushed to the Oshiwara police station and lodged a complaint.

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According to the senior police official, “Police immediately swung into action and after contacting the manager of the bank, managed to get details of the two beneficiary bank accounts in which the fraud had transferred the money from Kapoor’s bank account. Police officers contacted nodal officers of the two banks and managed to ‘debit freeze’ a sum of ₹3.08 lakh lying in the two bank accounts. The process to refund this money to Kapoor has been initiated,”

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Annu Kapoor took the social media and wrote, “I would like to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to Mumbai Police of Oshiwara, a cyber-crime wing for their immediate and effective action taken against fraud in my bank account.”