"The broker, identified as Sajida Begum, claimed before the victim's parents that the shaikh is a rich person and made them to believe that after marriage she can seek an employment in a Gulf country. Accordingly, the marriage was performed in August last year," stated a release from Hyderabad Police.
However, the woman who went to Oman with her husband later found that he was a beggar, and informed her parents in Hyderabad.
He said once the request was made and after the account
holder (mostly the same person) accepted it, it went to the bank, which sent message to InfraSoft of "insufficient balance".
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However, InfraSoft, while sending message to NPCI, sent two messages as "successful, proceed" and "error : insufficient balance".
The NPCI software read the first message which was "successful, proceed" and automatically cleared the amount from the bank's pool account.
"It seems that the suspected fraudsters recognised the lacuna in the UPI application and took advantage of that," he said.
Now, all these people who fraudulently received the money have switched off their phones, but they are being traced.
"They also transferred the money through RTGS to their different accounts, which shows that they had malafide intention and we are pretty sure that InfraSoft is at fault and have summoned their officials," he said.
When contacted, Rajkiran Bhoir, General Manager at the Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) said that the lacuna has been cleared and the system is now safe.