Nirmala Sitharaman: An incident of cyber crime has come to light from Pune, Maharashtra, which you will be stunned to hear about. This time, cyber criminals adopted a new tactic of fraud and forged the signature of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on a fake arrest warrant.
This is how the woman was intimidated
India Today report quoting Pune City Cyber Police said that this time cyber criminals made a 62-year-old retired LIC officer their hunter. They cheated him of Rs 99 lakh by threatening him. The matter is of October. During this time, cyber criminals, pretending to be government officials, cheated the woman and threatened her with digital arrest. Let us know what is the whole matter?
Use of fake signature of Finance Minister
The accused first contacted the victim, living in Kothrud area of Pune, in the last week of October. During this, he introduced himself as an officer of the Data Protection Agency and accused them of misuse of the mobile number linked to his Aadhaar number in some case of fraud. After this he transferred the call to another fraud named George Mathew.
This was a video call, in which the fraudsters trapped the woman and accused her of money laundering and threatened to freeze her bank account. To ensure that no one has any doubt, the fraudsters sent a fake arrest warrant to the woman bearing Nirmala Sitharaman’s forged signature and government seal.
This is how the woman realized
The woman was told that due to her old age, she was placed under ‘digital arrest’ and would be monitored remotely. The woman was also told to transfer all her money to RBI accounts for verification. The frightened elderly woman accepted his words and transferred around Rs 99 lakh to several accounts one by one.
Later, all the Mule accounts were found. To maintain trust, the criminals also sent fake receipts to the Enforcement Directorate (ED). After a few days, when the woman called that number, the number came switched off. Then they realized that they had been cheated a lot.
This was revealed in the investigation
The woman lodged a complaint with the Pune City Cyber Police without any delay. Investigation revealed that this gang was being operated from Thane. At present the police is investigating the bank accounts and mobile numbers. Hopefully some concrete clue will be found soon.
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