New Delhi: Cyber thugs swindled four and a half crore rupees from a female doctor in the national capital Delhi. On the complaint of the doctor, the Special Cell has registered a case and started an investigation. The victim has said that the accused had committed this fraud by calling her on May 5, claiming themselves to be government officials.
The accused also told the woman not to tell anyone about the incident, otherwise, she would get into trouble. The thugs had made a Skype call to the woman. First of all, one offender called the female doctor, introducing himself as a staff of a courier company. He said that the woman's courier has arrived and it has been seized because it contained drugs.
After this, another person calling himself an officer of the Maharashtra Narcotics Department said that the parcel of the woman has been seized because drugs have been found in it. He said that the parcel also has the passport and banking documents of the woman. The parcel was booked on April 21 from Mumbai to Taiwan with the woman's credit card.
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He told the woman that it was a case of money laundering. That's why he got a person talking on the phone posing as an Andheri police station officer. After this, the thugs posed as RBI officers, Customs officers and Narcotics officers. The thugs told the woman that her ID was used to open 23 bank accounts in Mumbai through which money was laundered. That's why she can get trapped in money laundering.
The thugs told the woman that she would have to transfer the entire amount available in her bank to RBI's bank account to get all her accounts verified. After verification, their full amount will be refunded. On this, the woman transferred four and a half crore rupees from her bank accounts to the account mentioned by the thugs.
After this, when the phones of the thugs got switched off, the woman realized that she had been cheated. On the complaint of the victim woman, the Special Cell has registered a case and started an investigation.
