Even before Urjit Patel took over as Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor from Raghuram Rajan, hackers were busy using his name to fool people. A security survey by PWC quotes a fake mail from Patel (when he was RBI deputy governor) asking depositors to send their personal details, including bank details, to an email address. The mail said the recipient was the beneficiary of an unclaimed account that held millions of rupees and promised to deposit Rs 4.7 crore directly into his/her account. The giveaways were the spelling and grammatical errors in almost every sentence.
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