Hyderabad: 81 year old man became victim of digital arrest fraud, lost Rs 7 crore

Hyderabad: Cases of digital arrest fraud are increasing rapidly. The latest incident happened with an 81 year old man from Hyderabad. In this incident, an elderly man became the victim of swindlers, who lost more than Rs 7 crore.

What is the whole matter?

An 81-year-old man was duped by thugs posing as a Mumbai Police officer and threatened to join a drug trafficking racket, police said on Sunday. After this, this amount was extorted from him on the pretext of verification.

Police said that the elderly man lost Rs 7.12 crore in this “digital arrest” scam.

How did this fraud happen?

On October 27 last year, cyber fraudsters called the victim claiming to be from a courier company and informed that a parcel had been sent from Mumbai to Thailand in his name, in which MDMA drug, passport and some debit and credit cards were found. They also told him that they had intercepted the parcel and referred the matter to Mumbai Police.

A police officer said that later another caller called him posing as a Mumbai Police officer and told that he was involved in a big racket of drug smuggling, money laundering and terrorist activities.

After this, the process of extorting money from the old man started and the caller told the old man that if he was found innocent then the money would be returned. The victim was instructed not to tell anyone about the matter.

The 80-year-old man transferred Rs 7.12 crore to the swindler in two months. The criminals then demanded him to transfer another Rs 1.2 crore, following which he realized that he had been duped by fraudsters and contacted the Telangana Cyber ​​Security Bureau (TGCSB) on December 30.

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