Dec 15, 2024 03:28 PM IST
The scammers, pretending to be Mumbai crime department officers, accused the senior citizen of involving in a cash laundering case linked to Naresh Goyal.
A 68-year-old man in Bengaluru fell sufferer to an organised cyber rip-off, shedding ₹1.94 crore from his mounted deposit after being held beneath “digital arrest” for seven days. The scammers, pretending to be Mumbai crime department officers, accused the senior citizen of involving in a cash laundering case linked to Naresh Goyal, the founding father of Jet Airways.
The fraudsters had staged their setup much like a police station and made the Bengaluru senior citizen switch ₹1,94 cr to their accounts. (Getty Photographs/iStockphoto)
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According to a report in Deccan Herald, the sca began on November 30 when the senior citizen received a video call from an unknown number on WhatsApp. The callers had staged their setup similar to a police station. During the call, they alleged that the man’s ATM card had been seized as a part of their investigation into Goyal and claimed he had acquired commissions from the businessman. The declare triggered a panic in sufferer as he was requested to both seem on the Mumbai crime department for interrogation or stay beneath “digital arrest.” Selecting the latter, he was coerced into offering his financial institution particulars and transferring funds in a number of installments, totaling ₹1.94 crore. The scammers warned him in opposition to disclosing the scenario to anybody, additional isolating him.
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The victim only realized he had been duped when he confided in his younger daughter on December 7. Acting swiftly, she accompanied him to the police station to lodge a complaint. Initially registered at a police station in southeast Bengaluru, the case was later handed over to the southeast CEN police station for investigation.
There have been many digital arrest scam cases across the country where people are losing lakhs of rupees to the scamsters. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also recently alerted people about such scams. He said, “People from every class and age group fall victim to digital arrest. People have lost lakhs of rupees earned through their hard work, out of sheer fear. Whenever you receive such a call, don’t be scared. Try to be conscious that no investigative company ever inquires like this by a cellphone name or a video name.”
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