A 67-year-old Pune woman lost Rs 1.6 crore of her life savings to cyber crooks after receiving a call claiming that her phone number was used to send vulgar texts and that Mumbai police had arrested her.
She was issued an arrest order under the guise of a ‘national security danger’ and a ‘Supreme Court case’, and she was informed that disclosing her ordeal would result in the arrest of her children and seizure of their assets.
The deceptive call
The 67-year-old woman from Kothrud filed a First Information Report in the case at Pune’s Cyber Crime Police Station earlier this week. In the first week of May, she received a call from a man posing as a Tilak Nagar police officer in Mumbai. While the individual presented himself as a sub-inspector, he used the identity of an IPS officer now stationed in Pune.
He informed her that vulgar messages had been sent from her phone number and requested her personal, financial, and Aadhar information for further clarity. He then stated that a ‘FIR’ had been registered in the ‘Supreme Court’ and that the charges included money laundering. The man said a CBI officer would call her and help.