Mateen Hafeez
Mar 11, 2019, 08.01 AM IST
MUMBAI: A senior citizen who is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur was cheated of Rs 35 lakh by cyber fraudsters who posed as bank officials and lured him to get huge money on his life insurance policies. The conmen, to get money into their account, then warned the 67-year-old of possible raids by the enforcement directorate (ED) and income tax officials.
The senior citizen lodged a complaint of cheating and hacking at Nagpada police station. The victim told the police that the suspects cheated him from June to December last year. Investigating officer Prasad Raut told TOI, "We are trying to get details of the bank accounts used by the accused."
The complainant had taken life insurance policies from a private bank for Rs 4 lakh. In 2018, his policies were to mature. The complainant decided to close the policy and informed the bank. A few months later, he got a call from one Akhlaque Ahmed who said he was from the same bank.
The police said that Ahmed told the senior citizen that he could he could get Rs 8 lakh as returns if he deposited Rs 70,000 into a certain account as processing fee.
Though the victim did not get the promised Rs 8 lakh, he got a call from one Kamal Sharma who said he was from the same bank. Sharma gave details of privileges for senior citizens and told the complainant that he could benefit from government schemes and his total return would be around Rs 33.7 lakh provided he first deposited Rs 6.13 lakh into another account as processing fee. The victim transferred the amount.
A month later, he got another call from one S B Sharma and claimed he was from the same bank. This caller asked the senior citizen to deposit Rs 15 lakh if he wnated monthly pension of Rs 42,000 besides te returns promised in the insurance policy. The victim deposited this amount too.
The caller said he needed to transfer total funds to his account, but warned that the ED and income tax authorities could raid him over such a huge amount. The caller said he could circumvent this by paying Rs 6 lakh tax. The victim transferred the amount.
However, as he did not get any funds and all callers' phones were switched off, he lodged a police complaint.
The Times of India, March 11, 2019
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