Hyderabad: Fraudsters posing as Mumbai crime branch and CBI officials cheated a 67-year-old retired colonel of ₹61.8 lakh in a digital arrest scam . Malkajgiri cybercrime police registered a case on Wednesday following his complaint.
The accused stopped communicating with him on Oct 9. The victim disclosed the fraud to his son on Oct 19 and lodged a police complaint on Oct 21.
Later, another fraudster identifying himself as Inspector SK Jaiswal recorded my statement over a WhatsApp video call,” the victim told police. “The call was transferred to a man posing as Mumbai crime branch inspector Rakesh Kumar, who claimed that a case had been registered against me. Police registered a case under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Information Technology Act.
The victim, a resident of Kowkoor, received a call on Sept 8 from a fraudster posing as a Telecom Regulatory Authority of India ( TRAI ) employee. The caller claimed that his Aadhaar details had been misused to obtain a mobile number linked to illegal activities.
Over the following weeks, the gang sent him forged documents, including an FIR, an Interpol notice, an arrest warrant, an Enforcement Directorate funds-freezing order and Supreme Court orders, falsely linking him to a money-laundering case.