Cybercrooks posing as customs officers duped a 33 year-old woman from BT Kawade Road of Rs. 17.51 lakh by threatening to take action against her friend, claiming that the letter had arrived at New Delhi airport with an actionable amount of foreign currency.
The crooks even went to the extent of imitating the complainant’s friend and convinced her to transfer the money.
The victim said the fraudsters cited different reasons and made her send the amount in tranches to different bank accounts between Sept 9 and 10.
The woman filed a compliant application with the cyber police station thereafter. Following preliminary investigations, a case was registered with the Mundhwa police on Thursday.
An officer from the Mundhwa police told TOI that the complainant works with a private firm in Vimannagar. On Sept 9, she received a call from a woman, who claimed to be a customs officer at Indira Gandhi Airport in New Delhi. “The called said the victim’s friend had arrived in New Delhi from the UK and was found carrying a huge amount of foreign currency. If he wanted to travel further, he need to declare the currency, which was not possible with his credit card,” the officer told TOI.
Source: The Times of India
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