Mumbai, April 28 -- A 77-year-old man was scammed out of Rs 28.7 lakh by a person posing as a Delhi crime branch officer, police said here on Monday.
According to a complaint lodged at the cyber cell of Thane police, the scammer claimed the complainant was implicated in a money laundering case and persuaded him to transfer funds for transaction verification.
The complainant, a Dombivli resident, received a WhatsApp call on April 6 from someone claiming to be a crime branch officer. The caller told him he was linked to a money laundering investigation involving a businessman and was a beneficiary in the case.
The scammer instructed the complainant to share his bank details and transferred Rs 28.7 lakh across multiple accounts between Apri...