Police freeze Rs 20.5L stolen by cyber thugs

Gurugram, July 26

The Gurugram cyber police have successfully frozen a sum of Rs 20.5 lakh stolen by cybercriminals. According to the police, the cyber thugs duped a man by posing as fake crime branch officers.

According to the complaint filed by a local resident, he received a call from an official from the Mumbai branch office of FedEx, saying a parcel in his name contained illegal goods. Thereafter, the call was transferred to the Mumbai Police. After talking to the complainant on phone, he was told through a Skype video call that his Aadhaar card ID was involved in several instances of money laundering. Thereafter, the cyber thugs got Rs 20.5 lakh fraudulently transferred from the victim’s bank account.

Following the complaint, an FIR was registered at the cyber crime police station in south Gurugram. The police collected information regarding the bank account to which the money was transferred by the fraudsters.

“100 per cent of the defrauded amount of Rs 20.5 lakh was frozen. The police team is busy collecting information related to the case,” said DCP cyber Siddhant Jain.