Mangaluru : A woman lost Rs 3.16 crore to a online fraud from cyber fraudsters in Mangaluru, and a case has been registered at CEN police station in Mangaluru.
Cyber fraudsters called the woman in the name of Mumbai Police and said that she had been cheated by getting a fake SIM card in her husband’s name.
The complainant told the Mangaluru City Cybercrime police that she received a call on June 5 from an unknown person claiming to be an inspector with the National Crime Records Bureau. He told the complainant that her husband had bought a new SIM card and made fraud calls as well as sent suspicious links to the public.
The call was then transferred to the Sahar police station where one ‘Inspector Mohan Kumar’ spoke to the complainant and got her personal details. Later, the call was transferred to ‘Public Prosecutor Deepak Venkataramana’ who obtained her bank account details on the pretext of examining the accounts.
Asking her to send money, the caller threatened her with the arrest of her husband and told her not to reveal the issue to anyone.
Accordingly, the complainant transferred Rs 3,16,52,142 in a phased manner from June 10 to 27 to different accounts. When the woman did not receive any further call or message from the accused, she informed her children.
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