A resident of Sector 22-B was duped of ₹ 30 lakh after he received a call by an unknown person who claimed to be an official with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
When the accused asked for more money, the victim informed his son who suspected the matter as fraud and contacted police. The accused is yet to be arrested. She downloaded an .apk file which she immediately deleted from her phone. A cheating case has been registered at the cyber crime police station.
The victim, a retired employee of State Bank of India (SBI) received a call on September 9 by the accused who claimed to be a CBI official, according to the police. The accused said that he had arrested a man Sandeep in a money laundering case with ₹ 1 crore and alleged that ₹ 22 lakh of the total amount belongs to the victim and added that he had an arrest warrant for him. The victim was threatened and he sent ₹ 22 lakh to the accused. A total of nearly ₹ 30 lakh was sent in multiple transactions. A case under IT Act and Sections, 308(2) (extortion), 318(4) (cheating), 319(2) (cheating by personation), 336(3) (forgery for the purpose of cheating), 338 (forgery), 340(2) (using a forged document as genuine) and 61(2) (criminal conspiracy) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) has been registered at the Cyber Crime police station. In another incident, a Sector 34 resident alleged that on September 7, she received a message issuing a traffic challan with a link to pay for it. However, on September 13 she received messages that ₹ lakh had been withdrawn from her bank account.
