Mumbai: A 22-year-old drama school student was a victim of the latest online fraud when the fraudsters called him disguised as his brother-in-law and cheating to transfer him RS44,900.
When the victim, Rahul Agarwal, said that he did not sound like his brother, a cheater claimed that Covid-19 infection had influenced his voice.
Police Powai investigated this case to know that this is a new type of Covid fraud they encountered, previous fraudsters used to deceive people, with fake job calls, those who have lost their jobs during a pandemic.
This case is registered based on the written complaint submitted by Agarwal on Thursday.
Agarwal originating from Delhi lives as a Pawai guest (PG) in Powai for the past month when he lost the money he had in his account to take care of his expenditure while living in the city.
Powai police have searched for details of Call Data Record (CDR) from telephone operators and fund transaction details from the bank to track fraudsters.
The fraud occurred on January 2 when Agarwal was in a flat rental.
In complaints, Agarwal said, “I received a call around 6pm from someone who identified him hard.
When I asked him whether I knew him, he replied that he was my brother-in-law.
When I told him his voice did not match the hard one .
she replied that she was infected Covid and that was the reason she was low.
he even provides information about the name of my family member to another.
This led me to be deceived.
“A police officer said Agarwal cheated after fraudsters disamar as a brother-in-law claimed that his client should Transferring RS45,000 but cannot transfer because of some problems in his account.
“Fraudsters asked what his balance was in his account and was asked to transfer the same to his account.
When agarwal was examined, fraudsters said that he had distributed his bank account number with the client who would transfer the same thing in some time.
Night, when a agarwal account is not credited, He called his brother-in-law in Delhi and learned that he never called him or asked to transfer any money, “the officer said.
A case under the Indian criminal code and the information technology section for theft and theft of identity has been registered with unknown people.