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Posing arsenic sleuths from the Mumbai police, cyber fraudsters threatened a 33-year-old bundle technologist with “digital arrest” successful a fake wealth laundering lawsuit and made distant with ₹3.6 crore connected September 20.
Based connected the ailment filed by Shreya C.S., a nonmigratory of Maratahalli, the constabulary connected Friday registered an FIR against a idiosyncratic identified arsenic Vishal, charging him nether Sections 66C (identity theft), 66D (cheating by impersonation) of the Information Technology Act, 2000, and respective sections of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita, 2023.
According to the complaint, Shreya received a WhatsApp telephone from Vishal claiming to beryllium an serviceman with the Mumbai constabulary successful August 2025. He informed her that she was progressive successful a wealth laundering lawsuit that was being investigated. The caller threatened her to support her nether integer apprehension and demanded the slope relationship details for verification. He assured that the wealth verified from the accounts volition beryllium refunded wrong 24 hours aft the investigation.
Trusting him, Shreya not lone shared her and her father’s slope relationship details but besides transferred a full of ₹3,62,87,000 to 42 antithetic slope accounts mentioned by the caller.
The cheating came to airy erstwhile she tried to scope him aft the deadline and recovered his mobile was not reachable. After repeated attempts, she realised that she had been duped and approached the constabulary connected Friday to lodge a ceremonial complaint.
The constabulary person present initiated a probe to frost the accounts wherever the wealth was transferred.
