Elderly woman duped of Rs 1.25 crore by ‘digital arrest’, trapped in such a trap by posing as an RBI officer

Maharashtra News: In Mumbai, Maharashtra, cyber fraudsters have ‘digitally arrested’ an elderly woman and cheated her of Rs 1.25 crore. Cyber ​​fraudsters accused the 68-year-old woman of being involved in financial fraud and pressurized her to pay money to get out of it. Police gave this information on Tuesday.

Police said that the woman lives with her husband in Goregaon city. An officer said, in the complaint lodged at the Cyber ​​Police Station of the Crime Branch in November, the woman had said that she received a call from an unknown woman, who introduced herself as an official of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). They told that he threatened the victim to register a case if she did not pay the credit card dues and asked her to talk to the Hyderabad Police.

The thugs accused the woman
After this, a person calling himself a police officer talked to the victim. The person (fake police officer) claimed that the victim’s credit card was used in a financial fraud of Rs 500 crore in Hyderabad and Rs 20 lakh was deposited in her account, the officer said. After this the man told the woman that he was transferring the call to the CBI officer.

After this the CBI officer made a video call to the victim woman and threatened to arrest her. The fraudsters told her that if she wanted to save herself from arrest, she would have to deposit the money in the bank accounts given to her, the officer said. After this, the woman deposited about Rs 1.25 crore within a month.

What is ‘digital arrest’
Actually, digital arrest is a new method of fraud in which thugs cheat people by pretending to be government officers. Along with this, posing as a government officer, he makes video calls to people and takes them into confidence and gets them to fulfill his demand for money. They do this work in such a way that people are forced to pay them money. This new type of fraud is called digital arrest.

Let us tell you that in this type of fraud, people are told that their name has come up in drug smuggling. In such situations people get scared. After this, the criminals pretend to be government officials and make people believe that if they give them money, they will be saved from going to jail. Similarly, many people get trapped in the trap of these swindlers and give them money.

Apart from this, people are often told that someone close to them is in trouble. If someone’s child is trapped in a police case, then an attempt is made to trap their parents by calling them.