In Maharashtra’s capital Mumbai, cyber fraudsters made a woman their victim and duped her of Rs 5 lakh. Regarding this case, a police officer said that the fraudsters cheated a woman lawyer of Rs 5 lakh by posing as employees of the Department of Telecommunications and threatened to arrest her on charges of money laundering. The officer said that the accused also made her remove her clothes during a video call and then blackmailed her through screenshots.
Woman lawyer duped of Rs 5 lakh
According to the news agency report, ‘On Wednesday afternoon, the 36-year-old woman lawyer received a call from a person who introduced himself as an officer of a telecom authority. He told the victim that a SIM card registered in her name was being used for money laundering. The fraudsters told her that if she paid money, she would get a clean chit from the Andheri police after which her phone number would be activated.’
There was a threat of being implicated in a money laundering case
During this, the woman lawyer was made to talk to another person who claimed that he was the head of the cyber cell of the police. She was asked to go to a hotel room in Powai and talk through a video call.
The cyber criminals cleverly told the woman that the woman involved in the money laundering racket has bullet wounds on her body and they want to check and verify her. Using this trick, the cyber thug made the woman take off her clothes and recorded her video.
Attempt to blackmail a woman by stripping her clothes
The officer said that in the meantime, the accused took her bank details and after allowing her to leave the room, blackmailed her and got Rs 5 lakh transferred online. Not only this, the cyber thugs threatened the woman that this is a secret investigation so she should not discuss this matter with anyone.
When the woman lawyer informed her husband about this, she realized that she had been cheated. Meanwhile, the accused called the woman again and demanded money for not making her private photos viral. The woman refused to pay the money and lodged a complaint against the accused at the police station.
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