A 63-year-old physician, and dean of a prime faculty in Mumbai, has filed a grievance with the police after falling sufferer to a cyber fraud scheme, dropping 48.28 lakh. The police stated that the fraudsters impersonated cops, claiming that her Aadhaar card had been used to open three financial institution accounts in Uttar Pradesh for unlawful actions. Underneath the guise of arresting her, the fraudsters pressured her to pay.
In accordance with police officers, an individual who recognized himself as Rajiv Kumar initially contacted the complainant on her cell quantity. The caller alleged that he labored for a telecom firm and that one Sunil Kumar Mishra had misused her Aadhaar card particulars to purchase a SIM card in Lucknow.
The physician was additional knowledgeable that Mishra had additionally opened three financial institution accounts utilizing her Aadhaar card, which had been getting used for unlawful actions, and she or he was requested to lodge a police grievance.
“Whereas she was contemplating the place to lodge a grievance, Kumar reached out to her once more and knowledgeable her that there have been 17 FIRs registered in opposition to her, together with a case of cash laundering, and that one ACP Pramod Kumar was investigating the matter,” an officer stated.
Subsequently, the fraudsters despatched her an arrest warrant together with a doc threatening to freeze her financial institution accounts. “The physician was additional threatened that her son, who is predicated within the USA, could be referred to as to India and arrested for the crime,” the police grievance learn.
In the course of the course of a video name, the physician was advised that she had been “digitally arrested” whereas Kumar was conducting an “e-investigation beneath the brand new Digital India motion”.
“She was additionally pressured to not inform anybody about her digital arrest, and beneath the pretext of serving to her get out of hassle, the fraudsters took all the small print associated to her financial institution accounts and different investments,” an officer stated.
“For 2 to 3 days, the fraudsters began calling me repeatedly and alleged that I must withdraw cash from my fastened deposits, shares, and mutual funds investments and requested me to deposit it within the Supreme Courtroom. It will assist my case,” learn the assertion of the complainant.
The physician then withdrew Rs 48.28 lakh from her fastened deposit and transferred it to the financial institution accounts dictated by the fraudsters in 19 completely different transactions. Later within the day, when she shared her ordeal with a pal, she realised that she had been duped by cyber fraudsters.
The 63-year-old then shared the knowledge along with her husband, after which she lodged a grievance on the helpline variety of the state cyber division on August 29.
A case of extortion, dishonest, and dishonest by impersonation was registered on the South Cyber Police Station in Mumbai on Tuesday.
