Lucknow, Nov. 20 -- Cyber fraudsters impersonating as officers of the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) allegedly duped a retired teacher of Rs 12.57 lakh after holding him under a so-called "digital arrest" for six days.
The scammers claimed his mobile number was linked to a Pakistan-based money laundering case and coerced him into transferring money for a fake investigation, police said on Wednesday.
Gaya Prasad, a resident of Jankipuram and a retired school teacher, received a call on November 7 from a man who introduced himself as Inspector Ranjit Kumar from the ATS department at the Lucknow Police Headquarters. The caller alleged that Prasad's phone number had surfaced in a money laundering case involving a person named Afzal Khan in Delhi and...