Hyderabad: A 72-year-old retired govt employee from Bakaram was duped of Rs 3.35 lakh by fraudsters posing as Mumbai police and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials.According to the victim, he received a call on Oct 27 claiming that a Blue Dart parcel he had sent to Thailand had been seized in Mumbai with MDMA. The caller then transferred him to other fraudsters who were posing as officers from the Mumbai Crime branch and the CBI. During a video call, they showed forged documents bearing the insignia of the CBI and the police. They claimed that four bank accounts had been opened with the victim’s Aadhaar number to launder Rs 3 crore, and warned that he and his wife would be taken into custody if the matter leaked. Panicking, the victim disclosed details of two fixed deposits, and following instructions from the ‘investigation head of the CBI’s finance department,’ he liquidated Rs 3.35 lakh. This amount was then transferred to a UCO Bank account in Madhya Pradesh on Oct 28.The fraud came to light on Oct 29 when he informed his children, who recognised the scam and helped him to file a report on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal. On Friday, police registered a case at the Hyderabad cybercrime police station under sections 66C and 66D of the Information Technology Act and various provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
