A 72-year-old lawyer in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar was duped of over Rs 3.29 crore after cyber thugs put her under "digital arrest" for several days, police said on Wednesday.
According to an official of the Cyber ​​Crime Police Station, Hemantika Vahi, in her complaint filed on Tuesday, alleged that on June 10, she received a phone call where the caller informed that that four bank accounts had been opened using her Aadhaar card and a case had been filed in this regard.
The caller told her that the money found in these accounts has been used for gambling, blackmailing, illegal purchase of weapons etc. and further gave her a phone number. When she contacted the number, she was told that she was involved in a serious crime, the lawyer alleged.
According to the woman, after this she started getting calls from a fake police station and she was asked for details of the amount deposited in banks and she was defrauded of Rs 3.29 crore, the official said.
In another case, cyber criminals defrauded a 75-year-old man by keeping him under digital arrest for 12 days and swindled Rs 49.5 lakh from him.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Cyber ​​Crime) Preeti Yadav said Rajiv Kumar, a resident of Sector 29 in Noida, lodged a report at the police station on Tuesday night alleging that on June 18, he received a call on his landline.
The caller said that four bank accounts have been opened using his phone number and Aadhaar card, which are being used for drug trafficking, human trafficking, money laundering for terrorist activities and his phone number will be closed in two hours, the officer said.
According to him, when the elderly man requested the fraudsters to get him out of the matter, the accused talked about a confidential settlement and told him not to share any information with anyone, keep his wife with him and also not tell anything about this to his children, Mr Yadav said.
The victim told police that he was kept under 'digital arrest' from June 18 to June 30 and during this time, on the pretext of helping him, the accused made him deposit Rs 49.50 lakh in their various accounts in three installments.
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