Mumbai: A 62-year-old man was duped by a gang of scammers posing as courier company and Mumbai cyber crime officials stating that his parcel containing passports, credit card and MD drugs have arrived and induced the victim to pay Rs 11.50 lakh to get out of the case.
Interestingly, the fraud came to light after the victim's son who works abroad had received emails from the bank about the transactions. He then inquired with the victim who narrated the ordeal and learnt that he had been conned.
According to the police, the victim is a resident of Dombivali. On August 28, the victim had received a call from an unknown person claiming to be calling from a courier company. The caller told the victim that a parcel of his containing 5 passports, 03 credit cards, clothes 120 gm MD powder and a laptop has arrived. The victim who was baffled with this information denied having any knowledge about the parcel.
The caller further told the victim that there is a complaint against him at Cyber Crime Branch office at BKC, Bandra and that he is connecting the said call to them and the victim can speak to them further. Another person who posed as a police officer then spoke to the victim over the call and told him that apart from the parcel containing drugs, there had been some suspicious activities from his bank account as well.
The fraudster then told the victim that if he wants to get out of this case, he would have to pay him. He then induced the victim to transfer Rs 11.5 lakh from his bank accounts. Later, the victim's son, who works abroad, received an email from the bank informing about the transactions. He then spoke to the victim asking why he made those transactions after which the victim narrated the entire ordeal.
The victim was informed by his son that he had been conned after which he approached the police and got a case registered in the matter under section 66D (cheating by personation by using computer resource) of the Information Technology Act.
