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A man was allegedly cheated out of Rs 9.21 lakh after an unidentified caller posing as an employee of a courier company informed him that a package containing a number of prohibited items had been received in his name, police said on Friday.
According to the complainant, a resident of the Sushant Lok area, on April 10, he received a call from a courier company. The caller informed him that a package had been received in his name containing four passports, three debit cards and some cash.
“The courier company employee described the package as a suspicious item and transferred the call to Colaba police station which was answered by one Bhupendra Nagar who verified my PAN and Aadhaar number and said that there are some prohibited items in the package He threatened me saying that Mumbai cyber cell was asked to arrest me immediately,” he said.
“Soon after that, another man named Deepak Raj Singh approached me as a lawyer and said that he would clear my name from the case but would need some money to do so. I transferred Rs 9,21,500. It all turned out to be a scam ‘ added the complainant.
Police said two more cases of online fraud were reported in Gurugram on Friday. In the second case, a woman was reportedly duped of Rs 8.40 lakh by unknown people posing as customs officers for delivering a package here, they said.
According to a complaint filed by one Kavya Shetty, she contacted a person named Dr. Marc Bakshi, who told her that he sent her a package that will be delivered on April 4.
“After this, I received a call from the caller asking me to pay Rs 45,000 as customs duty which I transferred to an account. After 2 hours, the lady called back and asked me to pay a fine of Rs 2.90 lakhs. I then transferred Rs 1.40 lakh On the next call I was asked to pay Rs 5.5 lakh as a conversion fee I sent a total of Rs 8.40 lakh Later I realized I had been cheated and transferred to the police,” she said.
In the third case, Radhika, a DLF Phase 2 resident, was duped of Rs 41,622 under the pretext of selling antique coins.
In her complaint, she said that an employee of a Mumbai-based company asked her to pay Rs 41,622 as RBI tax, GST tax, CBD tax and registration fee. She transferred to the police force after being asked to pay more at the next call.
Three FIRs were registered on Thursday under different sections of India’s Penal Code (IPC) and IT Act in cybercrime, East police station, police said, adding that they are investigating the matter.
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