Indore: Woman Loses Rs ₹1.60 Crore To Digital Arrest Scam

Indore (Madhya Pradesh): A woman resident of the city was put under digital arrest and been duped of Rs 1 crore 60 lakh. The woman has lodged a complaint in the cyber cell in this matter. It is said that the accused first threatened the woman by calling her online posing as ED and CBI officers and took information about her bank accounts by telling her that she is trapped in a money laundering case.

Then they threatened her in the name of verification of money and got all the money transferred online. The woman belongs to an industrialist family. According to the information received from the state cyber cell, the incident happened with Vandana (40) husband Rajiv Gupta. Vandana works in Anand Rathi Group. They have a share and commodity business.

The victim woman said in her complaint that she received a video call on 9, 10 and 11 November. The caller spoke posing as an ED officer and said that money from illegal transactions has come into her bank accounts. 

He told her that it was a money laundering case in which a person named Naresh Goyal has been caught. She was told that Goyal has confessed that this money will be transferred to your account. Therefore, verification of your accounts will have to be done.

Premature withdrawal of Rs 1 crore FD

According to Vandana that she got frightened and the prospect of getting trapped in an online case proved too much for her to bear. Thus she prematurely withdrew her fixed deposit of Rs 1 crore and transferred the amount to the accused.

The miscreants managed to transfer this money to another account via RTGS in the name of verification. The complainant informed about the involvement of some bank officers. TI Surendra Vaskale who is investigating the case, said that the woman is quite educated.

When she was asked about such incidents of digital arrests appearing in the media, she said that she was not aware of it. Because she stays away from TV and newspapers. Therefore, she became their victim. In this case, the team of cyber cell has started investigating the money transferred from the woman's account.