Hyderabad doctor couple loses Rs 3 crore to cyber criminals
Hyderabad: Another digital arrest has come to light in the city. This time, a doctor couple from reputed corporate hospitals fell victim to it and lost Rs 3 crore to cyber criminals.
According to the Cybercrime police, a 54-year-old female doctor from Mehdipatnam in the city received a call nearly two weeks ago from fraudsters who identified themselves as representatives of the Telecom department. They told the female doctor that her mobile number was found to be associated with a money laundering case and the number would get blocked in two hours. They also shared fake details of the case, saying she had carried out some illegal activities in Delhi.
When the profoundly shocked doctor informed the caller she was innocent, the fraudsters switched her call to a Skype video call with Skype ID ‘DelhiPolice208.gov.in‘. The new person in the video call introduced himself as Shashank Jaiswal, an IPS with the Delhi police. He then showed her some documents with the signatures of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud. At this point, the female doctor got scared, and the fraudsters took advantage of it and demanded that she transfer money to the government bank accounts of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
The fraudsters threatened her dire consequences if she disclosed the matter to others. They also connected the family details, income, savings, bank deposits, and other assets. She went through a horrifying ordeal for ten days. When she revealed the matter to her doctor husband, he looked up the information about Shashank Jaiswal on the Delhi police website. When he found the information matched, he helped his wife transfer huge sums of money to the fraudsters. They transferred Rs 3 crore to the list of bank accounts provided to them and waited a week to get their money back after completing the verification process as promised by the fraudsters. When their efforts to contact the fraudsters failed, they realized they were defrauded, approached the Hyderabad cybercrime wing, and filed a complaint about cyber fraud. The Cybercrime Department has registered a case, and an investigation is ongoing.
