Bengaluru:
According to the Times of India, a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) employee in Bengaluru was duped into paying Rs 24.5 lakh by fraudsters posing as workers of a logistics company.
The 58-year-old Cunningham Road resident received a call at 4:30 p.m. on May 6 from someone pretending to be a logistics executive. The caller warned her that a parcel intended to her in Mumbai contained illegal stuff such as passports, clothes, and credit cards. Another person, masquerading as a senior officer with the Mumbai police, informed her that her Aadhar card was used to identify the parcel.
The woman was informed that her account will be looked at for possible links to terrorist MD Mallik after being extremely alarmed by the news and becoming persuaded that her account had been used for money laundering. Since the scheme involved well-known people, the con artists told her not to speak about it.
The thieves promised to refund the money, so they asked her to transfer it from her bank accounts the next day. She gave in to their pressure and moved a total of Rs 24.5 lakh, or Rs 14.2 lakh from one account, Rs 5.5 lakh from another, and Rs 4.8 lakh from a third account. The woman reported the scam to the cybercrime police the following day after realizing she had been duped. A complaint has been filed under two sections of the Indian Penal Code, and authorities are currently seeking to freeze the money in the scammers’ accounts.
