Cyber Scam: Digital arrest fraud in the country again. A 26-year-old woman from Mumbai is now a victim of digital arrest. He lost 1.8 lakh rupees. Impersonating the police, the fraudsters told the woman that her name had surfaced in a cyber scam case and that she would be arrested. And after giving this threat, they forced the woman to undress in a video call (Digital Arrest) and then looted 1 lakh 78 thousand rupees from her account. What happened in Adape?
The woman, who lived in Boriveli East, Mumbai, worked in a pharmaceutical company. On November 19, fraudsters called him and identified themselves as Delhi Police officers. They are the ones who tell the woman that her name has come up in a financial fraud case. His name is associated with the jailed founder chairman of Jet Airways, Naresh Goyal. And those fraudsters threatened to arrest the woman. Fraudsters made a video call immediately. The woman was informed that she had been digitally arrested.
The fraudsters ask the woman to book a hotel to spend the rest of the ordeal. The woman booked the hotel like that, as soon as she got there, the fraudsters told her to transfer 1 lakh 78 thousand rupees to their account. During the video call, they forced him to take off his clothes in the name of body verification. Following the instructions of the fraudsters, that woman also transferred 1 lakh 78 thousand taka.
Later when he realized that he had been cheated, he immediately filed a police complaint. The complaint was filed on November 28. Earlier also, fraudsters had looted 7 crore rupees from Shri Paul Aswal, Managing Director and Chairman of Burdwan Group in the name of Naresh Goyal. In his case too he was informed over the phone that he was digitally arrested.
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