India, Oct. 30 -- In the latest 'digital arrest' fraud, a 67-year-old was duped of Rs.74.24 lakh by fraudsters who pretended to be police officers and accused him of being involved with jailed gangster Abu Salem Abdul Qayyum Ansari, convicted in the March 1993 Mumbai serial bombings case.

According to the East Region Cyber police, the fraudsters extorted money from the senior citizen, claiming that Salem had transferred large sums of money to a bank account opened in his name and threatening to arrest him if he didn't pay up.

The police said that the victim, a 67-year-old retired lab technician with the public health department, who stays in Mulund East with his wife, son and daughter-in-law, got a call on September 23 from an unknown n...