THANE: A retired engineer of a MNC was duped of Rs 2.9 lakh by an impersonating caller who identified himself as crime branch official from Delhi and siphoned the sum of outstanding international mobile service provider.
The victim is a Vasant Vihar resident and was consulting electrical engineer and left the job in 2016.
Due to the nature of his job, he used to travel abroad very often and hence he used to take the service of an international mobile service provider while travelling for communication.
It was last month on 15, at around 11 am, he received a call from an unknown number saying that he is a ‘Delhi Crime Branch officer’ and there is Rs 87420 outstanding to be paid and the company has complained about the same to them as well.
Along with that there is Rs 2.10 lakh legal team expenses of the same.
If the amount is not paid, they shall seek arrest warrant and that he shall be dragged in the Delhi lok adalat.
The impersonating officer of Delhi police thus gave the number of another lawyer and told him to contact.
The accused fake lawyer too said the same and threatened that if the amount is not paid his Adhar card, Pan card as well as passport will be ‘blacklisted’ and his complaint is routed to them from Indian embassy.
The lawyer said that it’s his name and address on which the sim is taken.
The victim started sweating and paid the amount on the bank accounts that were provided to him by the fraudsters.
Later when he checked with the HR admin of the MNC company and narrated the entire episode only to find that there were no arrears from the company side and that they had cleared all the bills llong back.
Subsequently, he realised that he has been duped right royally and approached the Chitalsar police station, who registered a case of cheating and other sections of the information technology Act.