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The mode of operation adopted by the fraudsters to dupe Kumarasamy Sivakkumar from Jakkur was much like the one confronted by the girl lawyer.(Representational picture)
This incident comes shut on the heels of a 29-year-old girl lawyer from Bengaluru shedding 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 mentioned on Thursday.
This incident comes shut on the heels of a 29-year-old girl lawyer from Bengaluru shedding 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 much like the one confronted by the girl lawyer.
The swindlers known as the software program engineer between March 18 to March 27 saying that they had been from Customs Division and that an air parcel from Delhi to Malaysia in his identify 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 mentioned.
The decision was then supposedly transferred to the ‘Narcotics Management Bureau’ the place the ‘officer’ compelled him to obtain Skype, come on-line, police mentioned, including that later, the fraudsters informed him that if he needed to do away with the case then he ought to switch them cash.
Sivakkumar informed police that he paid Rs 2.24 crore in eight installments via Actual Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) and Fast Fee Service (IMPS).
The sufferer realised that he had been cheated solely on April 5 after which approached police to lodge a criticism towards 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 a lot of the instances, an analogous mode of operation was adopted, they added.
