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Mumbai: CBI, Police, Customs, ED or any court does not arrest people through video call. Digital detention is a fraud. People have been warned to beware of this fraudster who makes threats and extorts huge sums of money. A public advisory has also been issued by Cyber Crime Coordination regarding the increasing cases of digital arrests in the country.
Vishwas Nangare-Patil, a 1997 batch IPS officer from Maharashtra and currently serving as Additional Director General of Anti-Corruption Bureau-Maharashtra, said in a video while making people aware about digital arrests that fraudsters are being caught by various government agencies like ED, CBI. Are using. Narcotics Control Bureau, Cyber Police make video calls to the court judge in the name of Adi for a long time. In which an officer in police uniform scares you by giving various reasons that a crime has been registered in your name and a warrant has been issued for your arrest. Fraudsters spread rumors that large-scale money laundering has taken place in your name. Or drugs have been found in the parcel sent by you. Or if you have sent obscene clips related to children from your mobile, then action is being taken. They are saying that our seniors will call you.
After that the fraudsters video call you in uniform as if they are an officer and tell you that you have been digitally arrested, multiple complaints have been filed against you and multiple warrants have been issued, so if you If you want to avoid this, please cooperate with us. Aababat advises you not to tell your family that the bank account from which the money has been laundered is being debited, which is necessary for the 'fund legalization process' to ensure that the underworld has actually taken over your accounts. Whether money has been laundered from it or not. As soon as you say this, all the secret information of the bank account is obtained and your entire account is emptied.
Apart from this, in other cases they get information about mutual funds, FD, shares etc. and transfer it to other accounts, hence he has requested not to pay attention to such phone calls and video calls.
In this video, Nangar Patil has said that if this happens then register your complaint on the Satwar 1930 helpline number so that the account to which your money has been transferred in the 'Golden Hour' can be 'frozen' and your hard work will be refunded. Earnings can be saved. Apart from this, he has appealed to the people to remain alert and said that along with the complaint in the prescribed format on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal, they should also lodge a complaint in the nearest police station.
Cyber thugs have recently extorted Rs 400 crore from people by threatening them with digital arrest. There is also news of death of a teacher in UP due to heart attack due to digital arrest.
The Cyber Crime Coordination Committee of the Central Government has also made it clear in the public advisory that CBI, Police, ED, Customs or any judge does not make digital arrests in this way and arrests are also not made through video calls. . In this, it has been asked to beware of fraudsters who misuse mediums like Skype or WhatsApp app and extort money by falsely pretending to be arrested through video call.
In a single day on October 5, Mumbai Police, acting on a fraud complaint received on cyber helpline 1930, saved over Rs 1 crore from innocent people in the name of 'digital arrest' before it fell into the hands of fraudsters. ,
