Extorted 11.8 crores by Digital Arrest for one month; How did the Bengaluru software engineer Loses Money?
Karnataka Crime Case: A case of digital arrest has come to view in Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka State. Here a software engineer was digitally arrested for a month and blackmailed by the miscreants. Later, the software Techie from Hebbal realized that he had been cheated.
Register Complain In Police after Fraud
After which a complaint was lodged with the police. The thugs cheated a 39-year-old man of Rupees 11.8 crore by threatening him. This fraud has been started a month ago. According to the complaint lodged in the police station, the accused extorted money between 25th November and 12th December. The miscreants called him posing as Telecom Regulatory of India (TRAI) officers. During this time, he was threatened by saying that your aadhaar card and mobile SIM was being used fraudulently.
Fake Phone Call from TRAI Officer
The first call came on 11th November. The software engineer was called by a fake TRAI officer from the mobile number 8791120931 at around 11.25 am. The caller said that people are being threatened from the SIM purchased in your name. Advertisements are also being published illegally. SIM has been purchased with aadhar card authentication. Now they are starting the process of blocking the SIM. A case has been also registered in Mumbai’s Colaba Cyber Police Station in this regard. After this, a fake police officer called. Contacted him from mobile number 7420928275 and said that a bank account has been opened for money laundering through your Aadhar card number.
Fake Application Download In Phone
Further they said that do not inform anyone about this incident. Some big people involved and have done all this. These people are in jail, if you do not cooperate with us in the matter, they will arrest you as well. After this, a third call was made and Skype application was downloaded in his phone. Through video call, the person told him that he was a senior Mumbai Police officer. After this, a businessman Naresh Goyal was mentioned in conversation. The caller told him that an account of rupees 6 crores has been opened in Canara Bank using his name and UID.
Money Transferred due to fear of Police Arrest
Person called again again on 25th November and said that now the Supreme Court has taken cognizance against him. After this, crores of rupees were transferred from him. The fraudsters said that his bank account is being verified on the instructions of RBI. By seeing the arrest, he transferred 75 lakhs in fear to one account and 3.41 crores to another account. In this method, the accused have cheated him of 11.8 crores till 12th December. When the fraudsters asked for more money, he realized that he had been cheated. After this, he filed complained complain in the police station.