Cyber criminals invent different ways to cheat innocent people. Now these criminals have invented a new way to cheat people through digital arrest. The latest case is from Lucknow, where criminals duped a woman doctor of PGI of about three crore rupees by digitally arresting her. The woman doctor has lodged a complaint in the cyber crime police station.
According to the information, the woman doctor of PGI received a call on her mobile number, in which the fraud introduced himself as TRAI officer and said that 22 complaints have been lodged on your registered mobile number. It will be closed soon. During this, he said that CBI officer Rahul Gupta will talk to you and for this, download the Skype app, after which the woman immediately downloaded the Skype app out of fear.
After this, Rahul Gupta, posing as a CBI officer, told the woman that your name has come up in the Naresh Goyal money laundering case. Also, your bank account has been used, whose money has been used for women and child trafficking. The court also has evidence against you, in which you have also talked to them on your phone. The recording of this is also present with the court. The woman doctor got scared after hearing this.
Taking advantage of this fear of the lady doctor, the fraudster asked her to fill a form. In this, the doctor was told that the court has asked to fill this form, which I have sent to you. In this, you have to give your personal information. We have received an order to arrest you, but on my request you are being interrogated only by digitally arresting you.
Posing as a CBI officer, the cyber criminal also told the lady doctor that she should not tell all these things to anyone in her family as long as the investigation is going on. Otherwise, she will be arrested and sent to jail. You should quickly fill this form and give details of your property in it, submit it in the court and deposit the entire money in a government account so that it can be investigated.
In return, the fraudster provided seven different account numbers to the lady doctor, in which the lady doctor transferred two crore 81 lakh rupees from five different bank accounts. When the lady doctor was kept under digital arrest for 6 days, then the lady doctor realized that she had been cheated, but by then it was too late. At present, a case has been registered in the cyber crime police station and investigation has been started.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)