India, Nov. 18 -- Bengaluru residents are stunned and the internet is in absolute disbelief after a 57-year-old senior IT professional lost an eye-watering Rs.31.83 crore to a "digital arrest" scam.

But what has captured social media even more than the crime is the one question everyone seems obsessed with, "Who even has Rs.32 crore lying around?"

The woman, an Indiranagar resident and one of Karnataka's biggest-ever cybercrime victims, was manipulated for six straight months by scammers who posed as DHL executives and CBI officers.

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Her ordeal began on September 15, 2024 when she received a call claiming a parcel in her name had been sei...