Police officers stated the fraudsters appeared to have been holding tabs on the builder.
Ahmedabad:
A builder in Ahmedabad misplaced Rs 1 crore after he fell prey to a ‘digital arrest’ rip-off through which some folks posing to be from the police and the Narcotics Management Bureau informed him that 550 grams of a drug was present in a parcel in his identify.
Police officers stated the fraudsters appeared to have been holding tabs on the builder and likewise cited a Rs 50-crore land deal concluded by him to realize his confidence.
On July 3, the builder received a name from a person who claimed to be a consultant of a preferred worldwide courier firm. The person informed the builder that 550 grams of the drug MD have been recovered from a parcel in his identify and stated he was transferring the decision to the Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB), which had registered a case in opposition to him.
In his police criticism, filed not too long ago, the builder stated he then received a video name from a person sporting a police uniform, who claimed to be an NCB officer and requested him to document an announcement on-line. The ‘officer’ additionally pointed to alleged suspicious transactions within the builder’s financial institution accounts and threatened that businesses just like the police, CBI, Enforcement Directorate and NCB would examine him.
Officers stated that, after sufficiently scaring the builder, the person satisfied him to switch Rs 1 crore, returnable in 10 days, to keep away from being prosecuted. The scammer additionally spoke a few latest Rs 50-crore land deal through which the builder was concerned to make him imagine that he was talking to somebody in legislation enforcement.
The scammers made no contact with the builder after that and, when his makes an attempt to succeed in them failed, he realised that he had been conned. He approached the Ahmedabad cyber crime cell not too long ago, over 4 months later, to file a criticism.
(With inputs from Mahendra Prasad)