IT engineer trapped in cyber fraud, digitally arrested and swindled Rs 7.74 lakh

On October 14, at 6 pm, a call came from an unknown number. The caller introduced himself as an employee of a courier company and revealed his name as Akash Verma. Told Vishal that using the Aadhaar card in his name, a parcel was being sent to Iran which contained drugs and other objectionable items.

Sudhir Kumar Sun, 20 Oct 2024 07:43 AM share

Cyber ​​fraud cheated Rs 7 lakh 74 thousand from an IT engineer working in a private company in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Balughat resident Vishal Kashyap was digitally arrested for four hours by cyber criminals posing as Mumbai Crime Branch officer. On the pretext of registering a case in Vishal’s name against a serious allegation, Rs 7.74 lakh was deposited from him in three different accounts. After that they were freed. Vishal has lodged an FIR regarding the incident in the cyber police station. Cyber ​​DSP Seema Devi said that the police is investigating.

He told the police that on October 14, at 6 pm, a call came from an unknown number. The caller introduced himself as an employee of a courier company and revealed his name as Akash Verma. Told Vishal that a parcel was being sent to Iran using the Aadhar card in his name, which the receiver refused to accept. The parcel has returned, which is being investigated by Mumbai Crime Branch. He told that the parcel contains five Iranian expired passports, one laptop, three credit cards, one pen drive, 450 grams of MDM drugs. The company has been paid Rs 93,410 for the parcel sent on October 8.

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After this Akash transferred his call to the alleged officer of Mumbai Crime Branch. Now the person receiving the call posing as a crime branch officer started giving various kinds of threats citing the existence of an FIR. Hearing his words and threats, Vishal lost control over himself. After this, the cyber criminal, posing as an alleged officer of Mumbai Crime Branch, made a Skype call and asked Vishal for Aadhaar card information, which he already had. He asked Vishal to check his personal loan amount on the mobile app. The caller already knew the amount of loan that could be sanctioned on Vishal’s account. In this way, he got a personal loan approved from Vishal and he deposited Rs 7.74 lakh in three different bank accounts in eight times.