A Gurgaon woman was cheated of Rs 20 lakh by fraudsters who had posed as police officials. The victim, who resides in Sector 43, received a call on March 3 from a person, who claimed to be working for a courier company.
The person on the call told her a parcel belonging to her had been confiscated by customs officials as it had illegal items and added that the call would be transferred to Mumbai Police.
The Gurgaon woman added that she then received two more calls- someone claiming to be "Deputy Commissioner of Police Balsing Rajput" and another person claiming to be "Inspector Ajay Bansal", both of whom supposedly were part of Mumbai Police's cyber crime units.
She was told by the duo that her Aadhaar card was used in "criminal transactions and money laundering cases" from three "additional bank accounts" in Mumbai. On hearing this, however, the woman revealed she had no bank accounts in Mumbai. The officials, though, asked her to make a payment for validation purposes.
The woman transferred the money, following which she was asked for more money as "security deposit" to carry out an "inertia financial check".
"They asked me to transfer Rs 4,99,999 and said this is a secret code to start a financial investigation," the victim said in her police complaint.
"I transferred Rs 20,37,194 in six transactions.," she added.
Following the complaint, a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against the callers for cheating on Monday.
(With inputs from PTI)
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