Fraudsters pose as Mumbai cops, dupe women of Rs 20 lakh in Gurugram

A female, resident of Sector forty three in Gurugram become allegedly duped of Rs 20 lakh with the aid of using fraudsters posing as police officers, police stated. The female in her grievance stated that she had acquired a name on March three from someone claiming to be from a courier company. The caller informed her that a parcel from her have been confiscated with the aid of using Customs for it contained unlawful gadgets and that her name might be transferred to Mumbai Police.

Following this, she acquired a name from different accused claiming to be Deputy Commissioner of Police Balsing Rajput and Inspector Ajay Bansal from the Mumbai Police`s cyber crimes unit. The duo claimed that the sufferer’s Aadhaar have been utilized in more than one crook transactions and cash laundering instances from her 3 extra financial institution debts in Mumbai. When she denied such a financial institution account in Mumbai, the duo requested her to make a transaction to validate her debts.

“They requested me to switch Rs 4,99,999 and stated that is a mystery code to begin a economic investigation,” the sufferer stated in her police grievance, said PTI. They then requested for extra cash as protection deposit to perform an inertia economic check. “I transferred Rs 20,37,194 in six transactions,” she stated. Based on her grievance, a case become registered and in addition investigations are on.