Digital Bondage: Senior Citizen Defrauded of ₹1.25 Crore by Cyber Criminals
Mumbai: In a case of digital bondage, a 68-year-old woman was defrauded of a whopping ₹1.25 crore by cyber criminals, police reported on Tuesday.
The victim, a resident of Goregaon, Mumbai, lives with her husband. According to a complaint filed in November at the Cyber Police Station of the Crime Branch, the elderly woman received a call from an unknown woman who introduced herself as an official from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
The scammer threatened the woman with legal action for failing to pay her credit card dues and insisted that the victim speak with the Hyderabad police.
Later, another person, claiming to be a police officer, informed the victim that her credit card was involved in a ₹500 crore financial fraud in Hyderabad and that ₹20 lakh had been deposited into her account.
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The scammer then said that the call would be transferred to a CBI officer, who allegedly threatened to arrest the victim via a video call.
The cyber criminals demanded that the woman keep the entire situation confidential, instructing her not to inform her husband or any relatives.
To protect herself from “arrest,” the victim was instructed to transfer money into specific bank accounts provided by the fraudsters. Over the course of a month, the woman deposited approximately ₹1.25 crore into these accounts, as confirmed by police officials.
The case has raised alarms about the growing menace of cyber fraud targeting vulnerable individuals, particularly the elderly.
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