Navi Mumbai: An 80-year-old retired director of an engineering institute residing in Kharghar was cheated of Rs 4 crores by a gang of cyber fraudsters posing as Nashik cops, one of them impersonating as Addnl DGP (Anti–Corruption Bureau). The victim was made to transfer money to a bank account claiming that is was specially provided by RBI for the victims of money laundering to transfer money from their account for verification process and after the supreme court clears his name in the case, his money will be reverted to his bank account. Thus, he was made to gradually tranfer Rs 4.3 crores between Nov last year till Jan 9.As per the FIR, on Nov 18 last year, the complainant received a call from one Mohan Kumar Sharma claiming that he was from cyber data protection of India. He told that a criminal case is registered against him at Nashik police station. The victim was made to speak on WhatsApp voice and video calls with other fake cops. After the victim transferred Rs 4.3 crore, he was repeatedly contacted for transferring money to the fake RBI bank account provided by the fraudsters. On Dec 9, he was even sent a letter of his bank stating that his bank account has been freezed. Hence, he contacted the bank official and learnt that his bank account was freezed on suspicion by Nagpur cyber crime branch. Hence, the victim contacted the PSI Owandkar of Nagpur police and narrated the incident of as he was made to transfer money by threatening legal action after which the PSI told the victim that he was a victim of cyber fraud and told him to lodge police complaint.
