Digital Arrest Case Noida Women Engineer Duped of Rs 11 Lakh Latest Cyber ​​Fraud in India

The increasing cases of cyber crime have scared people from using smartphones. Every day, some big cyber fraud case is reported from across the country. Now, a strange and shocking case of cyber fraud has come to light from Noida. Cyber ​​​​thugs held a female engineer hostage for 8 hours on the pretext of digital arrest, and after that defrauded her of Rs 11 lakh. The woman has lodged a complaint against this in the Crime Police Station, after which the investigation of the case has started.

of NDTV Report According to an inspector of Noida’s Cyber ​​Police Station, this case is of November 13, when Seeja TA, who lives in Sector 34’s Dhawalgiri Apartment, received a phone call. The caller introduced himself as an officer of the Telephone Regulatory of India (TRAI) and said that a SIM card has been purchased using Seeja’s Aadhaar card, which has been used for money laundering. Rs 2 crore has been withdrawn through this SIM.

The inspector further said that after listening to the caller, CIJA TA got scared and the scammer transferred the call to Skype citing investigation. The cyber thug posing as an investigating officer threatened the woman engineer on Skype call by posing as a crime branch and custom officer and kept her hostage by digitally monitoring her for 8 hours. After this, the cyber thugs transferred Rs 11 lakh 11000 from the woman engineer’s account.

The surprising thing in this shocking cyber fraud incident is that on Skype, the woman engineer was able to see a police station in the background and the police was also visible. The woman also told that during the digital arrest, a person was asked to stay connected to an app downloaded on her mobile phone, during which money was extorted from her by threatening her.

Cyber ​​police station in-charge Rita Yadav said that after the fraud, CIJA TA complained about the matter. A case has been registered in the matter and its investigation has been started.