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Andhra woman loses Rs 1.43 crore in digital arrest scam
['Telangana Today']
Telangana Today
Andhra woman loses Rs 1.43 crore in digital arrest scamA Machilipatnam woman allegedly lost Rs 1.43 crore after cyber fraudsters posing as Delhi Police officials threatened her with arrest in a fabricated money laundering case.
District Superintendent of Police (SP) Vidya Sagar Naidu told PTI that a case had been registered based on a complaint from the woman.
The callers claimed that a person named Goyal had been arrested in a money laundering case and that the bank account in her name had surfaced during the investigation.
She was allegedly instructed to transfer Rs 20 lakh immediately, another Rs 22 lakh over the next two days and the remaining Rs 53 lakh before the end of the month.
She said she became suspicious after being asked to borrow money despite being told earlier that the money in her bank accounts was allegedly linked to money laundering.