MUMBAI, July 2 -- A 70-year-old woman lost Rs.1.15 crore to cyber fraud over six years. The police said that the fraudsters, posing as income tax officers, contacted her under the pretext of returning some of her deceased husband's money and asked her to pay various taxes and penalties over 50 transactions from 2019 to 2025. The woman, a Worli resident, on Monday, filed a complaint with the Dadar police, saying that she had received a call in May 2019 from a woman claiming to be an income tax officer employed at the Integrated Grievance Management System (IGMS) of the central government. She told the woman that her husband had not filed his income tax returns, and the department wanted to return that money to her. In August 2019, the fraudster asked the woman to sign and post a Rs.26,550 cheque to a firm from Ghaziabad. During the pandemic, she did not get any calls from the fraudsters, but in May 2023, someone claiming to be from the IGMS called her and asked for Rs.8 lakh claiming it was the penalty she had to pay because her husband had not filed his tax returns for 10 years. According to the police, the fraudsters forced her to deposit Rs.10 lakh as a security deposit in her own bank account and later instructed her to transfer the bank balance to them, saying that the money would be returned to her once the refund process was complete. The police said that the fraudsters took Rs.1.15 crore over 50 transactions, often forcing her to send the money multiple times, claiming that the transactions had failed. When they demanded Rs.22.5 lakh more as a penalty on an unpaid tax, she grew suspicious and filed a complaint with the Dadar police, who have registered a case against the yet unidentified fraudsters under various sections of the BNS....