Lucknow, August 29 (HS). In the capital of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, cases of cheating people through digital arrest are not stopping. Once again, a similar case has come to light. Fraudsters have cheated a doctor resident of Aliganj of Rs 48 lakh by posing as officers of Mumbai Crime Branch. In this case, on the complaint of the victim, the police have registered a case and started investigation.
According to the information, Ashok Solanki, who lives in Aliganj, is a physician. On August 20, a cyber fraud called him posing as an employee of Fedex courier company. The fraud told him that a parcel has arrived in his name from Iran. The parcel contains a fake passport, laptop, pen drive and some narcotics. A case has been registered against him in Mumbai Crime Branch in this matter.
According to Dr Ashok, after this the fraudster made the doctor talk to another fraudster posing as an officer of Mumbai Crime Branch and said that he would solve the matter. The doctor fell for his words. After a while the second fraudster made a Skype call to the doctor and introduced himself as an officer of Mumbai Crime Branch. He said that suspicious transactions worth crores of rupees have taken place from your account. Saying that he will investigate this, he digitally arrested the doctor. To check the balance in the doctor's accounts, he transferred money to an account claiming it to be an RBI account. After checking, he made the promise of transferring the money back within an hour. Knowing it to be an RBI account, Dr Solanki transferred Rs 48 lakh into that account.