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HYDERABAD: After noticing TOI articles connected integer apprehension cases successful Hyderabad, an 81-year-old retired businessman reported being scammed of implicit Rs 7 crore utilizing the aforesaid modus operandi.
Posing arsenic Mumbai Police officers, the cyber fraudsters threatened to apprehension him successful a bogus drug-trafficking and fake passports lawsuit and extorted the money.According to a ailment filed by the octagenarian with Telangana Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB) connected January 2, his ordeal began connected October 27 past twelvemonth erstwhile helium received a WhatsApp telephone from a idiosyncratic claiming to beryllium Sunil Sharma from Blue Dart lawsuit care. Sharma told the unfortunate that a parcel sent successful his sanction from Mumbai to Bangkok contained a laptop, 5 passports and 200 gram MDMA, a narcotic drug.
Minutes later, different caller, posing arsenic a Mumbai transgression subdivision officer, said that based connected the evidence, the unfortunate faced charges of extortion, cause trafficking, wealth laundering and terrorism.Placing the unfortunate nether 'digital arrest', the impostors warned him against revealing lawsuit details to his household oregon contacting bankers oregon lawyers, and ordered him to supply afloat disclosure of his investments. Under sustained intimidation, the businessman transferred Rs 19.8 lakh connected October 29 to a City Union Bank account. Further, helium installed the Signal app to pass with them. Between November 6 and December 5, helium executed 5 much RTGS transfers to antithetic slope accounts, bringing the full nonaccomplishment to implicit Rs 7.12 crore.On December 29, the fraudsters sought an further Rs 1.2 cr to adjacent the lawsuit record against him. Growing suspicious, the unfortunate lodged a ailment connected December 31.
