New Delhi, Jan. 5 -- Sadly, another senior citizen fell prey to the now common digital arrest scam. In Hyderabad, one retired businessman was duped of Rs.7.12 crore after some fraudsters digitally arrested him in a fake drug trafficking and passports case to extort the money.

This was their modus operandi: He received a WhatsApp call from a person named Sunil Sharma from Blue Dart customer care, who told him that a parcel was sent in his name from Mumbai to Bangkok that carried a laptop, five passports, 200 grams of MDMA, and a narcotic drug. After some time, he received another call -- this time from an alleged Mumbai crime branch officer who said that based on the evidence, he faced multiple criminal charges.

Then he digitally arreste...