Pune: Cybercrooks posing as courier company officials and Mumbai police officers duped a 28-year-old software engineer of Rs20 lakh, claiming that drugs were found in a foreign-bound parcel bearing her name as the sender, adding that a case has been registered against her. The fraud occurred on July 4 this year, between 4.30pm and 7pm, when the woman was at her home in Tathawade.
She lodged a complaint with the Wakad police on Aug 22. An officer from the Wakad police told TOI that the woman first received a call from an unknown number. The caller claimed to be a courier company official and told her that drugs were found in a parcel allegedly sent by her, leading to a case being registered against her with the Andheri police in Mumbai.
"The caller then connected the woman to another person, who claimed to be an officer from the anti-narcotics department in Mumbai," said the Wakad police officer. When the woman insisted on the call that she had not sent any parcel, the crook posing as a police officer promised to get her out of the case. "He told the victim to download a telecommunication app and started talking with her on video call.
He took her bank and Aadhaar details under the pretext of verification and made her share her cellphone screen," said the officer. Using the woman's bank details, the crook later obtained a pre-approved loan of Rs20 lakh on her behalf, before transferring the money from her account to another one. "After realising that she had been duped, the wo.