82-year-old man digitally arrested, duped of Rs 7 crore in Ahmedabad
A 82-year-old man from Ahmedabad was duped of Rs 7 crore in a well-planned “digital arrest” scam. The scam was of 3 long weeks.
Ahmedabad: Another cyber fraud targeting senior citizens has come into the light, an 82-year-old man from Ahmedabad was duped of Rs 7 crore in a well-planned “digital arrest” scam.
According to the police investigation the elderly man was scammed and duped by cybercriminals who posed as law enforcement officials and subjected him to a three-week digital confinement and an elaborate identity theft scam.
According to the officials, On December 4, the elderly man received a call from an unknown number. The caller claimed to be an official of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and alleged that obscene videos had been sent to celebrities using the victim’s Aadhaar card. He was told that a complaint had been registered against him with the Mumbai Crime Branch.
Soon after, multiple fraudsters posing as Mumbai Crime Branch officials contacted the victim through WhatsApp video calls. They showed him fabricated evidence of illegal transactions worth Rs 2 crore and claimed that he was involved in a money laundering case linked to former Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal.
Between December 16 and 26, the accused extracted detailed information about the man’s bank accounts, properties and demat holdings under the pretext of an investigation. Believing that the money would be returned after “verification”, the victim transferred Rs 7.12 crore to accounts controlled by the fraudsters through RTGS transfers and cheques, the police said.
