A Mumbai resident has been allegedly defrauded of ₹58 crore through digital arrest. Mumbai Police claim that such a large amount of fraud has never come to light before in India's cybercrime history. Investigators claim that an international cybercrime gang is also involved in the incident. Investigators claim that cyber criminals from Hong Kong, China and Indonesia are connected to this case.
According to police sources, someone called a Mumbai businessman in August, identifying himself as a CBI officer. He was forcibly made to join a video call. The fake CBI officer interrogated him on the video call for several hours. After that, the fraudsters called him multiple times at different intervals through video calls and swindled ₹58 crore from him in instalments. Police statement revealed, this fraud occurred between August 21 to October 8.
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Officials investigating the incident said this is not an isolated incident. For a little over a year, an international gang has been conducting this type of cyber fraud with Indian citizens. This gang is mainly from China, Hong Kong and Indonesia. This gang has swindled more than ₹2000 crore from Indian citizens through digital arrest and cryptocurrency fraud.
This Mumbai businessman was also digitally arrested, and the money was swindled from his account through cryptocurrency. The Maharashtra Police is trying to catch the gang.
