Retired banker in Mahim loses Rs.32L to cyber scam
MUMBAI, June 5 -- A 75-year-old retired bank employee was cheated to the tune of Rs.32 lakh 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 cheating case in the scam that took place in 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 told her she should speak with the police when they called her.
She then received a video call from one Anil Sharma, posing as a CBI official. Sharma said the agency arrested Malik and found that she took money from him as a commission using her Delhi-based bank account. "The accused used the name of the bank she worked at to intimidate her," said a police officer.
They threatened her with arrest if she did not cooperate in the "ongoing high-level, confidential probe" which barred her from discussing it with anybody else. The scammers forced her to stay on video call all night and disconnected it the next day. Following this, another man, Rajveer Singh, posed as a CBI officer. He asked her to transfer Rs.32 lakh through RTGS.
Towards the end of February, they said her name was removed from the case and she should receive the refund of her money, the police officer added. Suspecting something amiss, she used her sources in the bank to check the bank balance of the fraud only to see it had Rs.11 as all her money had been withdrawn....
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