00:00It's Delhi's digital arrest scam that we're now bringing forward at this point with Rs. 71 lakhs being rooted is
00:10what we are learning.
00:11Fraudster posed as Mumbai-based IPS officer. Fraudster has said woman's credit card linked to the fraud.
00:19What we are learning about is that Rs. 6.5 crore money laundering that was done by woman.
00:25The victim threatened into making these payments and at last the lump sum was Rs. 71 lakhs being transferred in
00:33two transactions.
00:35Fear of legal action used by Fraudster to loot three accused including two women have been arrested in the case.
00:42Accused arrested from Hopal. Multiple mule bank accounts used to divert the funds.
00:48The looted money used to buy expensive mobile phones. Fraudsters used fake IPS identity cards.
00:54This is yet another one of those incidents that we see of digital scams taking place.
01:01Anshul Singh joining me on the broadcast with more details.
01:04Anshul, a very good afternoon to you. What exactly are we learning about this very incident?
01:08Digital scams has been quite the cyber menace of sorts that people have time and again been warned against.
01:19But often times it happens. Cases of this kind where the victim is indeed found so vulnerable by the fraudsters.
01:26They hit at the exact point where it hurts and blackmail them into paying this lump sum amounts.
01:35Well, yes, Rhea, this is another case of digital arrest that has come to the fore and it has become
01:41very, very prevalent over the last at least a year or a year and a half.
01:45Now, this case that has come to the fore, yet again, the accused impersonated as an IPS officer and then
01:51went ahead and tried to dupe a woman of 71 lakhs rupees.
01:55In fact, the manner in which this entire incident has happened has yet again raised a lot of questions on
02:02how the said person or the people are actually going ahead and carrying out such crimes.
02:08In fact, the case had originated from a complaint wherein the victim had received an internet-based video call from
02:16a person impersonating as an IPS officer posted in Mumbai.
02:19And he went ahead and falsely claimed that the credit card had been issued in her name and was being
02:24used to launder money transactions worth approximately 6.5 lakhs rupees.
02:28And this was an elderly woman who he was talking to.
02:33And she was alone while she was being duped by these fraudsters.
02:37In fact, the investigation was taken up by the Delhi Police Special Sales IPSO unit.
02:43And they were actually able to go ahead and trace the accused and, in fact, the accounts in which the
02:50money was transferred.
02:53In fact, the modest offer that was utilized was actually the same as we have heard the fraudsters, in fact,
03:00impersonated as senior police officials.
03:01And suddenly the victim would be arrested by falsely implicating her in a serious criminal activity by creating, by, in
03:08fact, creating fear of legal action that coerced her into transferring money into designated bank accounts under the pretext of
03:14verification.
03:15And then suddenly all of them vanished.
03:18Post this, the complaint was given and then eventually the Delhi Police has been able to go ahead and have
03:22the accused in this entire matter.
03:23However, the entire amount that was duped has still not been recovered and it could take some time for that
03:31recovery to happen.
03:32But yet again, another case of digital arrest coming to the fore, raising a lot of questions on the efforts
03:37that have been put from the side of the government to spread the kind of awareness amongst the people that
03:44there is nothing like a digital arrest.
03:46And even after that, people are getting trapped in this very, very deadly and sinister scam.
03:53Right.
03:54Anshul, thank you for putting forward all those details with regards to this very digital scam that's yet again surfaced,
04:02this time in Delhi.
04:03And viewers, let us also, while we are doing this story, tell you, please be warned against such calls and
04:11against such people who try to blackmail you with certain threats, using legal threats especially.
04:18Please verify and only then transfer money if it is at all required in situations like this, but please be
04:26warned of such people out there operating such scam.
