Techie loses Rs 24L in online parcel fraud

Pune: A 34-year-old software engineers from Kalewadi lost Rs 23.98 lakh to cybercrooks in a parcel from on Aug 29.
The techie filed a complaint with the Pimpri Chinchwad cybercrime police and after verification, a case has been registered with the Wakad police on Monday.
An officer from the Wakad police said according to the victim, on Aug 29, he received a call from an unknown person who posed as an official from a prominent courier company."The caller told the techie that drugs and fake passports were found in the parcel received on his name. The caller also told the latter that a case in this regard has been registered with the Andheri police," the officer said.
He said the caller then connected the victim to an allegedly Mumbai police officer. "The 'police officer' told the victim to download a telecommunication app. While talking to the victim through the video call, the alleged officer told him that the latter's Aadhaar number was misused and bank accounts were opened in his name," the investigating officer said.
He said the alleged police officer also told the victim that these bank accounts were being used for money laundering, black money, and even for illegal cryptocurrency trading. "He threatened the victim that the latter may have to face arrest in this case. Later, under the pretext of verification of the victim's bank account, the suspect told him to transfer money to a bank account and promised to return it after the verification," he said.
The officer said the victim transferred Rs 23.98 lakh to the bank account number provided to him and lost it to the crooks. "We have registered the case under sections 318 (cheating), 319 (cheating by personation), and 316 (criminal breach of trust) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS)," the officer said.