Udupi: A woman lost Rs 8.9 lakh in an alleged ' FedEx Parcel Scam'. In her complaint, BhavishyaA, 30, from Kundapur, stated that she received a call at 10:56 am on Sept 21 while working from her home in Bengaluru. The caller, claiming to be from FedEx, informed her that a parcel sent from Mumbai to Iran using her Aadhaar number contained five expired Iranian passports, three credit cards, two kilograms of cloth, one laptop and 50 grams of MDMA.
They threatened her with legal action and advised her to file a cybercrime complaint, connecting her call to someone posing as a Mumbai Crime Branch officer.
A woman claiming to be a cybercrime officer then spoke to her, requesting her Aadhaar card and other personal details via Skype. After obtaining the details, the scammers claimed that 25 bank accounts were linked to her Aadhaar number and that money laundering was being conducted from her ICIclBank account. They convinced her to take an instant loan from her ICICI Bank account to help "trace the fraudsters."
The complainant took an instant loan of Rs 8.8 lakh and deposited it into her account, after which the scammers allegedly transferred Rs 8.9 lakh from her account.
A case has been registered at the Kundapur police station under Sections 318(4) of the BNS and Sections 66 (C)and 66(D) of the IT Act.