A 76-year-old physician from Pimpri Chinchwad was duped of Rs 28 lakh by cyber criminals who posed as CBI officers and threatened him by saying he was below surveillance and that he had been positioned below ‘digital arrest.’
An FIR was registered at Pimpri police station by the physician, who has been practising for over 40 years. On the afternoon of November 28, when he was inspecting sufferers, he acquired a WhatsApp name from a person who recognized himself as ‘CBI officer Ravi Kumar.’
The caller mentioned the complainant’s identify had been flagged in a probe of bank card fraud, wherein he acquired a Rs 20 lakh fee on a transaction of Rs 1 crore. The caller informed him that if the complainant didn’t pay Rs 20 lakh, an arrest warrant shall be issued towards him.
When the physician denied of being concerned in any such case, he was informed that two notices — one from the Supreme Court docket and one other from ED — had been issued towards him. The fraudster posing as a CBI officer informed him that since he was a senior citizen and a physician, senior attorneys of the Supreme Court docket will assist and he must take motion as per directions.
The ‘CBI officer’ then related the decision with a fraudster posing as a ‘Supreme court docket lawyer.’ The second fraudster sought all monetary and private info from the complainant on the pretext of getting his case particulars. The complainant was later informed he was being positioned below surveillance and ‘digital arrest’ and prohibited him from discussing the case with anybody and even speaking to anybody. He was requested to reply a name each two hours and provides updates.
The subsequent day, the physician once more acquired a name and was requested to deposit Rs 28 lakh to specific accounts saying it was for clearing his identify from the case. The complainant was instructed to go to the financial institution protecting his cellphone on after which switch Rs 28 lakh to 2 separate accounts. The complainant did as instructed and informed the caller he had made the switch.
Some time later, the complainant’s son obtained to know concerning the developments and made him realise that he had been cheated in a cyber rip-off. They later approached police and lodged a grievance.
The Indian Specific had earlier reported that on the coronary heart these scams are multilayered and geographically distributed multinational syndicates, siphoning cash from unsuspecting victims to mule accounts and funnelling it to worldwide cyber masterminds by means of the cryptocurrency route.
In an advisory issued about such on-line blackmailing circumstances, the Ministry of Dwelling Affairs mentioned in Could, “A lot of complaints are being reported on Nationwide Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP) concerning intimidation, blackmail, extortion and “Digital Arrests” by cyber criminals posing as Police Authorities, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Narcotics Division, Reserve Financial institution of India (RBI), Enforcement Directorate and different Regulation Enforcement Businesses.” These frauds had been additionally highlighted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi lately in his ‘Mann Ki Baat’ programme.
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