Elderly man put under ‘digital arrest’ for 5 days, duped of Rs 81 lakh Faridabad
A 68-year-old man in Faridabad’s Ballabgarh was scammed out of Rs 81 lakh by cyber fraudsters posing as police and CBI officials.
Ballabgarh police have registered an FIR and are investigating the incident. Cyber thugs posing as enforcement officials duped a 68-year-old man in Faridabad’s Ballabgarh of Rs 81 lakh by placing him under “digital arrest for five days, police said on Wednesday.
According to a complaint filed by Vishnupad Chatterjee, a resident of Sector 7D, the fraudsters accused him of being involved in illegal activities like money laundering and human trafficking and duped him by digitally arresting him.
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Giving details of the five-day-long digital arrest, he claimed that at 2.29 pm on October 14 he received a call where the caller, posing as police and CBI officials, informed that he was booked in a case after he was found involved in some illegal activities, the police said.
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