Last Updated on 11/08/2024 by wccexam Desk
Fraudsters trap innocent people in their net and extort lakhs of rupees from them. The latest case is from Noida, adjacent to Delhi, where cyber thugs trapped a woman in their net and extorted about 10 lakh rupees from her.
The fraudsters first digitally arrested the woman by threatening her with drugs and banned items in a parcel that came in her name and then siphoned off money from her account. The woman has lodged a complaint about the fraud in Noida’s cyber crime police station.
According to the information, on August 7, 36-year-old Ranjana, who lives in Sector-62, received a call from the mobile number 9198857337. In which it was said that they are talking to DHL courier and those people told Ranjana about some illegal parcel which is linked to her Aadhar card.
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Fraudsters digitally arrested a woman
After this, they transferred Ranjana’s call to Mumbai Crime Branch’s number 226504008. The fraudsters claiming to be from the Crime Branch connected the victim to a video call via Skype and threatened her and collected all the information.
9 lakh rupees were blown away in two times
The next day, on August 8, at around 10 am, cyber fraudsters asked her to transfer money from her bank account to account number 43199622833 named ZWIGATO (RR ENTERPRISES) in the name of saving her. Due to pressure and fear, Ranjana was duped of Rs 5 lakh and later Rs 4 lakh 70 thousand. Later, both the accused got a total of Rs 9 lakh 70 thousand transferred from the victim. Even after transferring the money, the fraudsters kept Ranjana on call through Skype and on August 9, 2024, tried to contact her through WhatsApp from mobile number 7894750944. Then the victim realized that she had been cheated and Ranjana went to Cyber Police Station Sector 36 and lodged a complaint with the police.
At the same time, the Cyber Police Station has registered a case on the basis of the victim’s complaint and has also formed a team for investigation.
Input- Bhupendra Chaudhary
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)