Pune: Cybercrooks posing as CBI and finance ministry officials duped a 41-year-old employee of a private company from Mahalunge MIDC of Rs15 lakh in a parcel fraud case recently. The victim had filed a complaint application with the cybercrime cell of Pimpri Chinchwad police. After a preliminary probe, a case was registered with the Mahalunge MIDC police on Thursday.
An officer from the Mahalunge MIDC police said that on June 18, the complainant received a call from an unknown cellphone number while on company premises. The caller, who posed as an employee of a courier company, told the victim illegal items were found in a parcel sent by him to Iran. “The caller said customs has seized the parcel and an FIR was registered against the victim,” the officer said.
The caller told the victim to get a police clearance certificate (PCC) in the case. “The victim was connected with crooks posing as CBI and finance ministry officials via an app. They took bank details from him under the pretext of verification,” the officer said.
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