Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): A 79-year-old man was duped of ₹45 lakh and placed under cyber crooks in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur.
The fraudsters, posing as police officers, accused him of money laundering and threatened to arrest him. For two days, the old man was kept under mental pressure by keeping the phone camera on and a large amount was transferred from his bank account to their account. A complaint in this matter was made to the state cyber cell on Friday.
The first call came on July 15
Victim VK Kapoor (79), a resident of Oberoi Residency, Cherrytal Jagdamba Colony, received a call from at 9:30 am on Tuesday, July 15. The caller alleged that he talks obscenely from his mobile and his number is being blocked. On protesting, the caller asked him to talk to an officer named 'Vijay Khanna'. Threatened by pretending to be DCP (fake DCP call)
After this, a person named Vijay Khanna introduced himself as DCP and asked the old man to turn on his mobile camera. Then it was said on the video call that he is under intelligence surveillance, do not turn off the phone.
Later, another person was added to the call by introducing himself as Director-DCP. He told that the old man was involved in money laundering and said that an arrest warrant has been issued against him.
Arrested for two days
The fraudsters kept the old man under mental pressure by threatening him with arrest for two days.
Out of fear, on July 17, VK Kapoor withdrew ₹45 lakh from his account from SBI's Ridge Road branch and transferred it to the Yes Bank account mentioned by the accused. After this, the fraudsters stopped picking up the calls.
