Maha: Cyber fraudster impersonates Army Officer, duped Doctor couple of Rs 2 lakh
The accused introduced himself as an Army officer over the phone to the ophthalmologist and said that he wanted to organise an eye check-up camp for 400 jawans.
Nagpur: A doctor couple from Nagpur in Maharashtra has been duped of Rs 2 lakh by a cyber fraudster who posed as an Army officer and made one of the victims, an ophthalmologist, click a link sent to her mobile phone under the pretext of organising an eye check-up camp for jawans, police said.
The accused introduced himself as an Army officer over the phone to the ophthalmologist and said that he wanted to organise an eye check-up camp for 400 jawans, a Bajaj Nagar police station official said.
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"He then made a video call and gave her a 16-digit number. He also sent a link on her mobile phone and asked her to click it. When she did so, Rs 50,000 was transferred twice from the bank account of her husband, a well-known psychiatrist. Similarly, the fraudster also transferred Rs one lakh from her account. Later, she realised that she and her husband were conned by an online fraudster," the official added.
A case of cheating was registered under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Information Technology Act.
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