Cyber fraudsters send Nawab Malik photo to threaten senior citizen of arrest in drugs bust

The fraudster told the complainant that his Aadhar paper was utilized to acquisition an SUV and that the car had met with an accident. “A antheral has died successful the accident. And we person arrested Nawab Malik who was travelling successful the car and was smuggling drugs successful it.” said the caller. The complainant was sent photos of the damaged SUV, of a cause seizure and a representation of NCP person Nawab Malik sitting successful a car. The complainant was asked to articulation a video cal with a idiosyncratic wearing azygous who told him that his slope relationship and fiscal assets would person to acquisition thorough investigation. As the complainant denied having immoderate links, helium was threatened with enactment including apprehension but was besides told by callers that they could assistance ‘clear his sanction from the matter’.

The fraudsters told him that each the savings successful his relationship would person to beryllium transferred to ‘RBI fiscal department’ accounts for verification and would beryllium returned to him later. Having been enactment nether tremendous pressure, the complainant transferred Rs 13.3 lakh to the accounts fixed by the suspects. A portion later, the callers asked him to stock each details of his communal funds and fixed deposits and asked him to liquidate each investments. It was astatine this constituent that the complainant grew suspicious and asked them to instrumentality the magnitude earlier sent. When the callers began giving assorted reasons for holding the money, the complainant realised that helium had been cheated and approached the police. An serviceman from Chaturshrungi constabulary presumption said that a probe has been launched.

The Indian Express had earlier reported that astatine the bosom of these scams are multilayered and geographically distributed multinational syndicates, siphoning wealth from unsuspecting victims to mule accounts and funnelling it to planetary cyber masterminds done the cryptocurrency.

In an advisory issued connected online blackmail cases, the Ministry of Home Affairs, successful May, said, “A ample fig of complaints are being reported connected National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP) regarding intimidation, blackmail, extortion and “Digital Arrests” by cyber criminals posing arsenic Police Authorities, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Narcotics Department, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Enforcement Directorate and different Law Enforcement Agencies.” These frauds were besides highlighted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi precocious successful his ‘Mann Ki Baat’ programme.