The sufferer is retired from an influence firm and resides at Vashi in Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai township.
A 63yearold lady from Navi Mumbai has allegedly been duped of Rs 80 lakh by fraudsters posing as officers of a worldwide courier agency and authorities businesses and promising to avoid wasting her from motion in a smuggling case, police mentioned on Wednesday.
A 63-12 months-previous lady residing in Navi Mumbai reportedly fell sufferer to a rip-off the place fraudsters, posing as representatives of a distinguished worldwide courier firm and authorities authorities, swindled her of Rs 80 lakh. They allured her with false guarantees of safety from authorized repercussions in a supposed smuggling case.
The sufferer is retired from an influence firm and resides at Vashi in Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai township.
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Modus operandi of the rip-off
On March 29, the sufferer obtained a telephone name from an individual claiming to be from a world courier service. The caller knowledgeable her of a parcel obtained by them below her title containing smuggled items and mentioned that they had filed a criticism towards her with the cyber crime police, information company PTI reported quoting an official from the cyber police station.
Fake letters from ED, RBI
The sufferer later obtained pretend letters within the title of the Reserve Bank of India, the Enforcement Directorate and the Finance Ministry by way of a Skype account and the communications threatened her with arrest, the official mentioned.
Under the guise of providing her help to avoid wasting her from authorized motion and for property verification, the lady was coerced into transferring Rs 80 lakh into varied financial institution accounts.
The lady later realised she was cheated.
Based on her criticism filed on Tuesday night, the police registered an FIR towards unidentified individuals below Indian Penal Code sections 420 (dishonest), 465, 468, 471 (forgery), 170 (personating a public servant), 120B (felony conspiracy) and 34 (frequent intention) and provisions of the Information Technology Act, the official mentioned.
Recently, in an identical incident, fraudsters, pretending to be from a famend logistics firm and legislation enforcement, tried to swindle a Mumbai-based feminine lawyer out of Rs 80 lakh. However, her vigilance prevented any monetary loss.
The fraudsters contacted the 30-12 months-previous lawyer informing her that the bundle she tried to ship to Iran contained artificial drug LSD.
(With PTI inputs)
