Bengaluru man scammed of ₹2 lakh by man posing as Delhi High Court employee: Report

Fraudsters trapped the Bengaluru techie by blackmailing him through phone calls and turned off the phone after transferring money.

A man from Bengaluru lost ₹2.2 lakh after falling prey to cyber crooks and approached the police to recover his money. He said that the fraudsters trapped him by blackmailing him through phone calls and turned off the phone after transferring money.

Cyber criminal extorts ₹2.2L from Bengaluru employee by claiming to be Delhi high court staffer

According to a report in The Times of India, a resident of Bengaluru’s Harlur received a call from an unknown person who claimed to be a staffer of the Delhi High Court. The accused said an alternative account was created in the victim's name and asked him if he made the account to transfer black money. When the victim denied the claim, the accused said that there was a transaction worth ₹25 lakh in the account and warned the victim that he would be arrested soon. The scammer also stressed that a money laundering case had already been registered under his name, and his accounts needed verification.

After the phone call, the victim was scared and decided to settle the matter with the caller. He said he could transfer the money to remove him from the case.

The victim initially transferred ₹48,000, ₹99,998 and ₹70,010. However, he was demanded more money and he decided to approach local police. A case has been registered and investigation is going on.

In a similar case earlier, a 52-year-old software engineer from Bengaluru fell prey to scammers and lost ₹2.24 crore, according to a report by the news agency PTI. The fraudsters posed as Delhi Customs and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officials to dupe the victim. 

The senior software engineer from Jakkur, received a call on March 18 from a person who posed as an officer from Delhi customs. Sivakumar was told that a parcel consisting of 16 passports, 58 ATM cards, and 140 grams of Ecstacy tablets had been found under his name, and it was sent to Delhi from Malaysia. He was then forced to transfer the money into their account and the victim then found that he was cheated. 

The cyber police wing of Bengaluru police department has been warning residents of such scams which have rapidly reported in recent times.