Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad cybercrime cell on Monday arrested four men involved in a parcel fraud registered with the Hinjewadi police , in which a 36-year-old software engineer lost Rs25 lakh between July 23 and 25. The arrested persons include two money mule account holders from Ahmednagar and Jalgaon and their two handlers from Surat in Gujarat. The victim works as an analyst with a prominent software company in Hinjewadi.
On July 23, she received a call from an unknown man, who posed as an executive of a courier company. The caller told the woman that a parcel bearing her name was being sent to Iran and was confiscated by the customs after drugs were found in it. When the woman denied sending any such parcel, the caller connected her to “an officer from the Mumbai police”.
The crook posing as an officer told the woman her bank account was used for money laundering and shared photographs of a political leader, who was arrested in a fraud case. While talking with the victim on an app, the officer told her to share her cellphone screen. He then told her to open two banking apps and check her balance.
The woman was later connected with another “senior police officer”, who told her that there were several cases registered against her and told her to transfer Rs10 lakh. The crooks told the victim to take leave for two days from her office. They also made her break her fixed deposits and took Rs15 lakh more from her.
After losing Rs 25lakh to the crooks, she approached t.