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Final Up to date: April 11, 2024, 23:49 IST
The mode of operation adopted by the fraudsters to dupe Kumarasamy Sivakkumar from Jakkur was just like the one confronted by the lady lawyer.(Representational picture)
This incident comes shut on the heels of a 29-year-old lady lawyer from Bengaluru dropping Rs 14.57 lakh who ended up stripping on Skype video convention earlier than the fraudsters
A 52-year-old software program engineer has misplaced Rs 2.24 crore to the cyber fraudsters who swindled him by posing as Delhi Customs and Narcotics Management Bureau officers, police stated on Thursday.
This incident comes shut on the heels of a 29-year-old lady lawyer from Bengaluru dropping Rs 14.57 lakh who ended up stripping on Skype video convention earlier than the fraudsters.
The mode of operation adopted by the fraudsters to dupe Kumarasamy Sivakkumar from Jakkur was just like the one confronted by the lady lawyer.
The swindlers known as the software program engineer between March 18 to March 27 saying that they have been from Customs Division and that an air parcel from Delhi to Malaysia in his title has been held again at Delhi Airport because it carried 16 passports, 58 financial institution ATM playing cards, and 140 gram Ecstasy drug tablets (also referred to as MDMA, a banned narcotic), police stated.
The decision was then supposedly transferred to the ‘Narcotics Management Bureau’ the place the ‘officer’ pressured him to obtain Skype, come on-line, police stated, including that later, the fraudsters instructed him that if he needed to do away with the case then he ought to switch them cash.
Sivakkumar instructed police that he paid Rs 2.24 crore in eight installments by way of Actual Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) and Instant Cost Service (IMPS).
The sufferer realised that he had been cheated solely on April 5 after which approached police to lodge a criticism in opposition to the unknown fraudsters on the Bengaluru North East Cyber Crime Police Station.
In line with police sources, because the starting of the month about 25 individuals have fallen prey to the fraudsters and misplaced over Rs 4 crore in simply the North East Cyber Crime Police Station limits. In many of the instances, an analogous mode of operation was adopted, they added.
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