India, June 5 -- A 75-year-old retired bank employee was cheated to the tune of Rs.32 lakhs by cyber frauds posing as telecom company representatives and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials. She was told that her bank account was used in a money laundering case involving Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik. The Central cyber police on Sunday registered a case in the scam that took place over February.

The victim lives alone in Mahim as her children are in the United States. According to the police, she received the first call in February from someone who claimed to be an employee of a leading telecom service provider company. He read out a random mobile number, and when she said it was not her number, he warne...