Cyber Fraud's growing cases are not taking the name of stopping, fear is such a thing from which anyone can be easily implicated in the trap. Scammers take advantage of the fear of the people and very easily, people get into the trap and vacate the bank account. Recently, as a fake police officer, Scammer cheated an 83 -year -old retired elder living in Panchkula and cheated the money.
The elderly were intimidated that their name has come out in Money Laundering. According to the Times of India report, Scammer described himself as the police officer of the Hyderabad Crime Branch Headquarters, this fake officer asked the victim to come to Hyderabad immediately.
However, when the elderly expressed their inability to travel due to their age, the call scammer threatened to conduct an online investigation and warned that the matter would be made public if he did not cooperate.
To intimidate the elderly, Scammer made a video call from the second number on WhatsApp and kept them in a digital arrest during the video call. It has also been threatened that he should not share information about the call with anyone including his wife, otherwise he can get caught in trouble. The elderly mistake was made here that they did not inform anyone about this.
The elderly were pressurized and scammer asked the victim to share the bank account details. The victim was asked to transfer money to separate accounts to make the case a lot of money.
On the first day of his bank account, the elderly transferred 30.90 lakhs to the account mentioned by the scammers, the next day again the scammer transferred 18.50 lakh and 8.50 lakhs to two separate bank accounts. Overall, in two days, Scammer took 57.90 lakh thugs keeping the elderly in a digital arrest.
This matter continued for several days and scammer continued to demand money. When the victim took advice from someone who knows about this, he realized that he had been fraudulent with him. The victim immediately lodged a complaint on the cybercrime portal and the police registered a case under sections 316 (2), 318 (4) and 319.
If you get a call from a police officer on WhatsApp and you are asked to implicate you in a case, then understand that a conspiracy is being hatched to rob you. Immediately cut the call and inform the police about this. Do not make the mistake of giving any unknown person your bank account details, passwords, OTP.
If something like this ever happens to you, then you should know which number you have to call immediately? Call cybercrime helpline number 1930 immediately and inform them about the incident that happened to you and file a case.
