Hyderabad, Dec. 7 -- A couple were duped out of Rs 1.83 crore after falling prey to a digital arrest scam in Mokila, Rangareddy, where fraudsters posed as officials from the National Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C).

According to a report in the Newsmeter, the fraudsters first contacted the husband on November 27, claiming to be from the I4C office in Bengaluru and alleged that he had been identified as a suspect in a harassment case.

The fraudsters managed to get his Aadhaar details, after which he was contacted by another person identifying himself as a police control room in-charge, who offered to 'settle' the matter and issue a clearance certificate.

The ordeal did not end here. The husband was contacted by another person who ...