Revealed on: Dec 01, 2025 05:43 am IST
FIR filed after the sufferer was remoted for days and instructed her accounts had been linked to cash laundering.
A 70-year-old girl was duped of ₹78.9 lakh in a “digital arrest” rip-off on November 25, the place cyber fraudsters posing as cops satisfied her that her financial institution accounts had been getting used for cash laundering and confined her to her residence, officers stated on Sunday.
In response to police, the girl was recognized as Tamita Sethi, a resident of M3M Merlin in Sector 67. Based mostly on her grievance on the Nationwide Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP), an FIR was registered on the Cybercrime police station (south) on Friday.
In response to investigators, the 70-year-old was first contacted by fraudsters on her landline quantity on November 21. They impersonated representatives of a DTH firm, and instructed the girl that an “arrest warrant” had been issued towards her.
“The girl, who was already in panic, obtained one other cellphone name minutes later. The caller inquired about her medical and financial institution information. The fraudsters needed her to dilute her mounted deposits (FDs),” a police officer stated, quoting from the sufferer’s grievance.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the girl obtained a video name from one other man, who was dressed as a police officer and had a police flag within the background.
“The caller requested the girl to switch her financial savings into two financial institution accounts for investigation associated to her alleged hyperlinks to the laundered cash, assuring the girl that the cash will quickly be credited again to her account,” the senior official added.
Sandeep Turan, public relations officer of Gurugram police, stated: The caller then warned her to not depart the condo. “She was lower off from her household throughout this era. The 70-year-old lastly contacted her daughter on November 28 and filed a grievance on the identical day. Nevertheless, the fraudsters had already transferred ₹78.9 lakh into their accounts.”
Turan stated an FIR beneath sections 318(4) (dishonest with prior information) and 319 (dishonest by personation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) was registered towards the unidentified suspects, including that additional investigation stays underway.
