Prayagraj : The incidents of cyber criminals duping people are not stopping. The criminals transferred Rs 1 lakh from account of a woman advocate by threatening her with digital arrest . When the advocate came to know about the fraud, she registered a case at Dhoomanganj police station.
The advocate, a resident of Rajruppur, practices in the High Court. On Sept 8, she received a call, and the caller identified himself as Sumit Mishra from the Customs Office, New Delhi. He informed the advocate that an illegal parcel was being sent from India to Malaysia in her name.
The parcel contained 14 ATM cards, 118 passports, and 148 grams of drugs. The criminals asked the lawyer to appear at Vasant Kunj, Delhi police station. Then the criminals made her talk to a person at Vasant Kunj police station headquarters through a video call.
She was further informed that her name had come up in a money laundering and human trafficking case too. She was also told that she had committed this crime in connivance with HDFC bank manager, Mumbai. During this time, criminals kept threatening to arrest her.
After this, they transferred the call to another number and told her to talk to an alleged CBI official. The imposter took information about the advocate's personal and family background, Aadhaar number, and bank details. He threatened her that she should cooperate in the investigation.
The fraudsters told the advocate that her account was frozen, and she would have to send the entire amount of her.