Daijiworld Media Network – Bengaluru (MS)
Bengaluru, Oct 29: Online fraudsters threatened a woman that there are drugs in the parcel that she has sent and looted Rs 13 lac from her.
Priya (name changed) (62), a resident of Palmgrove Road of Victoria Layout here, is the women who lost her money. Though she did not send any money, the fraudsters threatened her of using her Aadhar card number.
The fraudsters called the victim woman introducing themselves as executives of a Mumbai courier company. They said that 140 grams of MDMA narcotic, eight passports and five credit cards were found in the parcel she had sent to Thailand.
The woman said that she had not sent any parcel to Thailand. However, the fraudsters mentioned her Aadhar card number to make her believe what they were telling her.
The fraudsters said that the customs officials had seized the parcel and that they need to contact the Mumbai Cyber crime police. The woman was struck by panic. The cyber fraudsters then asked her to download Skype and send a link to put her personal details. Later they gave an account number and asked her to send the money.
The woman who believed the fraudsters went to the bank the following day and transferred the money to the account of fraudsters. As they got the money, the fraudsters destroyed all the information related to their bank account.