Telecom engineer trapped in digital arrest, got relief after 6 hours. Some fraudsters introduced themselves as Mumbai Police officers. Another case of digital arrest has come to light in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh. This time cyber criminals made Pramod Kumar, a field engineer of a private telecom company, their victim and were looking for an opportunity to loot money from him.
Those criminals, posing as Mumbai Police officers, kept him a victim of cyber fraud for 6 hours and demanded Rs 3.5 lakh to avoid arrest. This incident happened on Monday. This is the second case of digital arrest in Bhopal within the last four days. Earlier on Sunday, a Dubai businessman also had to face similar cyber fraud. In a similar way, a conspiracy was hatched to rob the businessman by posing as a fake police officer, and then he was arrested by the real police.
How did digital arrest happen?
Pramod Kumar lives in Gayatri Nagar in Bajaria area of Bhopal. He was returning home from work on Tuesday. After this, a call came around 6:00 pm. The caller introduced himself as a Mumbai Police officer and said that his Aadhaar card is linked to several mobile numbers, out of which one number has had suspicious transactions in banks. Then after some time another call came, in which it was alleged that ransom has been demanded from Pramod’s number.
Asked to send 3.5 lakhs immediately
The cyber fraudsters had asked Pramod for cooperation and asked him to send Rs 3.5 lakh immediately. In the midst of all this, Pramod also switched off his wife’s mobile number. Pramod’s company used to have online meetings in the morning when he came and went, but that day Pramod did not attend the online meeting, so the employee went to his house to know about his condition, then this matter came to light and then informed the Crime Branch and informed about the entire incident.
During this time Pramod Kumar remained in the captivity of cyber fraudsters for about 6 hours till 12:00 in the night. And he had to face a lot of difficulties. Then he came to know that these are fraudsters and came out from there very carefully.
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