In a ₹90 Lakh digital arrest scam, Mumbai Cyber Crime Police apprehend a 27-year-old; fraudsters impersonating CBI officials deceive a retired director.
Police sources claim that the crime was conducted between December 20 and January 1 of last year. An unidentified number had called and left messages for the complainant, who lived on Nepean Sea Road. The caller introduced himself as Delhi Cyber Crime Department Inspector Arun Kumar.
A 27-year-old guy was detained by the Mumbai Cyber Crime Police after he allegedly belonged to a group engaged in a digital arrest scam. In a digital arrest scam, scammers defrauded a retired director of a private company out of Rs 90 lakh. An investigation found that the arrested person's bank account received a portion of the money that was extorted from the complaint.
Sohail Bashir Shaikh, a resident of JP Road in Andheri, has been identified as the individual who was detained.
Police sources claim that the crime was conducted between December 20 and January 1 of last year. An unidentified number had called and left messages for the complainant, who lived on Nepean Sea Road. The caller introduced himself as Delhi Cyber Crime Department Inspector Arun Kumar.
The caller further informed the complainant that his Aadhar card had been used fraudulently to register an unauthorized bank account, which was then exploited in cases of identity theft, investment fraud, and money laundering. After that, the scammer emailed the complainant a fake CBI notification requesting that he move funds from his bank account to a "Confidential surveillance Account" so that the RBI could confirm the authenticity of his activities.
The scammer also promised the victim that the money would be returned to his bank account within three to four hours after the RBI finished the verification process. When the victim realized he had been duped, he went to the police and had an offense filed against him. The scammer then tricked the victim into transferring Rs 90 lakh over time to various beneficiary bank accounts.
In accordance with sections 61 (criminal conspiracy), 204 (personating a public servant), 308 (extortion), 318 (cheating), and 319 (cheating by personation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, as well as sections 66C (identity theft) and 66D (cheating by personation by using computer resources) of the Information Technology Act, the South Cyber Crime police filed a case on January 23. Inspector Nandkumar Gopale oversaw a team that worked on the case.
According to the investigation, the Rs 60 lakh that was taken from the complainant was moved to a bank account in Hyderabad, and then Rs 4.94 lakh was moved to Shaikh's bank account from that account. He was arrested in the aforementioned instance after the police squad tracked him on Tuesday, according to a police official.
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