3 days Ago
A man in Hyderabad lost Rs 9,30,000 after a cyber fraudster who posed as a telephone department official placed him under “digital arrest”. The victim received an automated call from a fraudster posing as a telephone department official, who informed him that his phone had been hacked. The fraudster using his phone number, opened an account in a bank in Mumbai and (adsbygoogle = window.
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The fraudster threatened to permanently block his number and also impersonated the DCP of the Mumbai crime branch, falsely assuring the victim that he would not be arrested as he was innocent..
