Bangalore: Cases of digital fraud are constantly increasing in the country. The latest case is from Bangalore, where digital thugs have made an engineer their victim and defrauded him of about Rs 12 crore. After this incident came to light, there has been a stir in the cyber world.

What is the whole matter?

A 39-year-old engineer living in GKVK under Bengaluru North Division has lost about Rs 12 crore after falling prey to digital fraud. By the time this young man realized that he had been duped digitally, all his earnings had been looted.

This young man lodged a complaint with the Cyber, Economic and Narcotics (CEN) branch of the police on December 12. In this complaint, the young man told the police that between November 11 and December 12, digital fraudsters extorted Rs 11 crore 84 lakh from him.

According to the complaint lodged with the police, this youth received an IVR call on November 11, in which it was said that this call is from Telecom Regulatory Authority of India i.e. TRAI. His phone number has been misused and his call will be disconnected in 2 hours. When he asked the reason, he received a call from 8791120937 and the person on the other end said that he is a Crime Branch officer from Colaba, Mumbai and a case has been registered in Colaba with his Aadhaar number. He was told that a person named Naresh Goyal has been caught in a money laundering case of Rs 6 crore, and his Aadhaar card and phone details have been found in it.

The young man got scared after which he received a call from another number 7420928275 and the caller introduced himself as a Customs and ED officer and told him that he would digitally arrest the young man and asked him to download two apps and Skype on his mobile phone.

After this, another fraudster disguised as a police officer made a video call from 9997342801 and told him that now this case has gone to the Supreme Court and not only he but the rest of his family will also have to stay in jail for life. This young man got very scared and taking advantage of this, the fraudsters took all the information about the amount deposited in his bank from him and told him that he will have to deposit the money from his account in the RBI account and once the verification is done, this money will be sent back to his account.

After which, on November 11, he deposited Rs 75 lakh in an account in ICICI Bank, and the next day he deposited Rs 3 crore 14 lakh in an account in UCO Bank, after which, more money was demanded from him to get him out of this money laundering case. Since the victim was very scared, the fraudsters took full advantage of this and sequentially deposited Rs 97 lakh, 25 lakh, 1 crore, 56 lakh, 96 lakh and finally Rs 2 lakh in different bank accounts.

After this, he was told that all the money will be transferred back to his account by the afternoon of 12th December. When the money was not transferred on time, the young man panicked. He tried to talk to the officer but all the phones were switched off. He called the bank but it was too late. The money was withdrawn from all the 9 bank accounts in which the engineer had transferred the money. Because of this, the bank could not block him. After this, he realized that he had been duped in the name of digital arrest. Bangalore Cyber ​​Crime Police has registered a case against unknown people and started investigation.