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Yet another city doctor fell victim to the digital arrest fraud, as confidence tricksters skimmed a whopping ₹ 95 lakh off him, recently. “Between April 6 and April 8, the 76-year-old retired doctor was kept confined to his house and compelled to transfer ₹ 95 lakh to the account of the cyber frauds through RTGS in that time period. When they started demanding ₹ 25 lakh more, the doctor suspected fraud and reported it to police after which an FIR was registered on April 8 under multiple sections of BNS and IT Act, 2008.
Efforts are being made to hold the money from the fraudsters,” said Brijesh Yadav, station house officer, cyber police station. The victim, Dr BN Singh, a resident of Virat Khand, Gomti Nagar, told the police that the cyber thug called him pretending to be an employee of a courier company. He alleged that he was kept under digital arrest for two days through the excuse that the parcel contained some illegal stuff.
“Through a conference call, he connected Singh to an ‘SHO’. This ‘police officer’ called from another number saying that the doctor’s Aadhaar number had been misused and the parcel is being sent quoting it “‘This investigation is confidential, during this time no contact will be made with anyone,’ the doctor said he was told. During this time he kept talking on video call and also kept the doctor’s chat under surveillance.
“The caller asked to transfer all the money in the account in the name of the investigation saying the money will be returned after the investigation and case is solved. Like this, fraudsters digitally arrested the victim and got ₹ 95 lakh transferred through RTGS. After this, the fraudsters started demanding another ₹ 25 lakh which made the victim suspicious, who then lodged a police complaint,” the police said.
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