AHMEDABAD: A software engineer from the city’s Satellite area was cheated of Rs 20 lakh by fraudsters posing as officials from Mumbai Police. Khushbu Shah, 30, employed at a private company in the city, filed a complaint with Cybercrime police on Thursday
Posing as Mumbai cops, the fraudsters used details of Khushbu Shah, a resident of Agrawal Apartments, to avail a loan. They made her share the details by saying that they had found the psychotropic substance, MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine), passports and credit cards in an international parcel linked to her name.
They allegedly claimed that investigation had revealed that a person accused of money laundering shared a joint bank account with her. One of the fraudsters, posing as an officer of Mumbai Cybercrime police, made her transfer the money.
Shah stated in her FIR that she received a call from an unknown man on December 12, 2023, saying that a parcel had been sent from Mumbai to Iran with her name as the sender. She was told that it was addressed to a person named Zhang Lin but could not be delivered because it contained illegal articles.
The caller claimed that the parcel contained five expired passports, four credit cards, clothes and 450g of MDMA and that shipment charges were Rs 99,510.
Later a woman came on the line and introduced herself as a Mumbai police officer. She allegedly took Shah’s bank and Aadhaar card details. These were then used to take a personal loan of Rs 20 lakh on her name.
Shah stated in the FIR that she was scared on being told that her bank account and Aadhaar card were used for illegal activities. Cybercrime police have registered a complaint of breach of trust, cheating and criminal conspiracy under IPC along with the charges under the Information Technology Act.
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Posing as Mumbai cops, the fraudsters used details of Khushbu Shah, a resident of Agrawal Apartments, to avail a loan. They made her share the details by saying that they had found the psychotropic substance, MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine), passports and credit cards in an international parcel linked to her name.
They allegedly claimed that investigation had revealed that a person accused of money laundering shared a joint bank account with her. One of the fraudsters, posing as an officer of Mumbai Cybercrime police, made her transfer the money.
Shah stated in her FIR that she received a call from an unknown man on December 12, 2023, saying that a parcel had been sent from Mumbai to Iran with her name as the sender. She was told that it was addressed to a person named Zhang Lin but could not be delivered because it contained illegal articles.
The caller claimed that the parcel contained five expired passports, four credit cards, clothes and 450g of MDMA and that shipment charges were Rs 99,510.
Later a woman came on the line and introduced herself as a Mumbai police officer. She allegedly took Shah’s bank and Aadhaar card details. These were then used to take a personal loan of Rs 20 lakh on her name.
Shah stated in the FIR that she was scared on being told that her bank account and Aadhaar card were used for illegal activities. Cybercrime police have registered a complaint of breach of trust, cheating and criminal conspiracy under IPC along with the charges under the Information Technology Act.
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