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A 74-year-old antheral and his sister person go latest victims of integer apprehension and mislaid a full of ₹80.5 lakh to a pack of cyber fraudsters impersonating a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) and coercing them into transferring ample sums of wealth nether the pretext of a money-laundering investigation.
According to the ailment filed by Shanmugavelu, the incidental began connected October 30, 2025, astir 9.30 a.m., erstwhile helium received a WhatsApp telephone and the caller claimed that his mobile fig was linked to an planetary money-laundering lawsuit and that the probe was being monitored by a DySP.
The fraudster shared “official-looking” documents and convinced the unfortunate that his slope accounts were nether scrutiny by the Reserve Bank of India. He was told that his fiscal details had to beryllium verified instantly to debar ineligible action.
Believing the claim, the unfortunate disclosed his idiosyncratic information, including details of his Post Office fixed deposit worthy ₹30 lakh. The scammers past contacted him done assorted different WhatsApp numbers, instructing him to transportation the deposit magnitude for “verification”.
On October 31, 2025, the unfortunate transferred ₹35 lakh, followed by different transportation from his slope relationship aft liquidating it. The redeeming deposits of his sister, Sasikalavathy, were besides encashed and credited.
The accused threatened the duo not to task retired and fastener the location from wrong and not to speech to anyone and cooperate with them until the completion of the investigation. The accused adjacent threatened to apprehension the member and sister if they ventured retired of the house. Scared, the duo followed the instructions and transferred the wealth successful respective transactions.
Later, different caller convinced him that officials would sojourn his location and that helium indispensable support currency ready. When nary 1 arrived, helium grew suspicious but had already shared his delicate details.
On November 29, the victims got a telephone again from the accused asking them to sojourn the nearest constabulary presumption for further procedure.
The scam came to airy erstwhile Shanmugavelu visited the presumption to get an update and came to cognize that helium has been cheated.
Based connected the proposal of the police, helium filed a ailment with the East Division Cyber Crime Police connected Tuesday, based connected which the constabulary person registered an FIR against chartless radical charging them nether Information Technology Act, 2000 and assorted sections of Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita, 2023.
