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After this the fraudster told Shikha that now further investigation will be done by CBI and then Shikha got a WhatsApp call from another unknown number. Calling him an accused in a money laundering case, he threatened to send the entire family to jail.
Lucknow. In Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, once again a retired teacher fell victim to the digital arrest accused. This incident happened with the elderly mother of a doctor living in the old campus of PGI. By digitally arresting the mother, fraudsters posing as Mumbai Crime Branch and CBI officers cheated her of Rs 18 lakh. The fraudsters kept him under digital arrest for seven days. An elderly retired teacher who was a victim of fraud has filed a case in the cyber crime police station. Retired teacher Shikha Halder, resident of Panchkula, Haryana, lives with her doctor son and daughter-in-law, resident of PGI Old Campus. According to him, on November 5, at 10 am, he received a call from an unknown number. The caller introduced himself as a customer agent of SBI and informed about the credit card fraud in the name of Shikha. Shikha refused to use the credit card. After this, the fraudster took the name of Mumbai Crime Branch and asked about being interrogated. After some time, Shikha received a WhatsApp call. The caller introduced himself as a Mumbai Crime Branch employee. He told that a case of money laundering has been registered in Shikha’s name and her bank accounts have to be investigated.
After this the fraudster told Shikha that now further investigation will be done by CBI and then Shikha got a WhatsApp call from another unknown number. Calling him an accused in a money laundering case, he threatened to send the entire family to jail. After this, the fraudster started extorting money by threatening Shikha and got Rs 18 lakh transferred to 12 different bank accounts. The victim told that the fraudsters kept her under digital arrest. Along with WhatsApp calls, they also used to do chat and video calls to know about other activities. The victim was so frightened by the accused that she did not understand anything and she kept doing whatever the fraudster told her. The fraudsters transferred Rs 5 lakh from PNB to HDFC account on 5th November, Rs 5 lakh to ICICI Bank account on 6th November, Rs 4 lakh to Bandhan Bank account on 8th November and Rs 4 lakh to Bandhan Bank account on 8th November itself. Get transferred.
According to the victim, she first got influenced by the thugs and deposited all the money deposited in the accounts in the account specified by them. Seeing him upset, the son asked him several times, but due to fear he did not tell anything. On November 12, when the fraudsters called Shikha on WhatsApp and asked her to break all the FDs and deposit them in her account, she became suspicious. When he gathered courage and told the whole story to his son and daughter-in-law, he came to know that he had been cheated. On November 13, Shikha Halder filed a case in the cyber crime police station.
