Digital arrest is slowly and gradually becoming the fashion of the season in cases initiated by scamsters to intimidate the victim and then further cheat him/her.
New Delhi:
A woman doctor from Noida has been digitally arrested for 48 hours by fraudsters and lost ₹ 59 lakh, which is becoming a new trend in Delhi NCR.
Noida Sector 77 resident Dr. Puja Goyal got a call on July 13. The caller identified himself/herself as an official of the Telephone Regulatory Authority of India and said that obscene and pornographic videos were being transmitted through Ms. Goyal’s mobile phone.
The doctor refuted this, but the caller formulated the conversation in such a way that the doctor agreed to a video call. The woman was threatened with serious consequences and warned that she was arrested digitally.
Goyal has transferred an amount of 59 lakh 54 thousand rupees into a specified account after having been grilled for 48 hours. When she came to know she had been cheated, she filed the police complaint on Monday, i.e., July 22, at the cybercrime cell located in Noida Sector 36.
Vivek Ranjan Rai, Assistant Commissioner of Police Cyberspace, has claimed that they currently know the account number to which Ms. Goyal relocated money.
“They are being verified, and action will be taken.”
Thus, digital arrest is catching up as one of the most preferred modus operandi among the scamsters to threaten people and then cheat them. Thus, the scamsters lock the target in a house, sometimes in a room, and pretend to be policemen.
They use fake IDs to ensure the targets believe the individuals are actual officers. Earlier, a 72-year-old woman of Chaturanga Park, New Delhi, was conned into transferring <0x7E> 83 lakh. Like Dr. Puja Goyal, who received a call that her phone is involved in criminal activities, they detained Krishna Dasgupta for 12+ hours, interrogating her.
