Mumbai: Cyber fraudsters are arising with unthinkable plots to fleece their targets. The next case is an occasion of the brand new evil design within the arsenal of digital outlaws. A con duped a Ghatkopar-based man of ₹1.24 lakh by placing him below psychological duress, saying that his son was arrested for rape and demanding cash to quash the ’case’. The harried man even borrowed cash from his employer to pay the fraudster.
The matter surfaced on Sunday night when Dinesh Rajouria, 55, approached the Pant Nagar police. In his criticism, he stated that he works as a chef on the Sheth Virchand Dhanji Devshi Faculty, Ghatkopar. On Sunday at round 12.30pm, he obtained a name from an unknown quantity. The caller stated, “Your son has raped a woman and police have arrested him. If you need your son out of jail, you’ll have to pay me.”
Fraudster threatens Rajouria
Listening to this, Rajouria was in utter shock. In his assertion to the police, he stated that he wished to name his home and ask what was occurring, however the caller threatened him. The con demanded ₹4 lakh to get Rajouria’s son ’out of jail’. The con then despatched a few Google Pay QR codes, requested the aggrieved to ship the cash by means of them.
A tensed Rajouria borrowed ₹50,000 from his employer, whereas asking his daughter and elder son to ship some cash, with out explaining the matter. He managed to gather ₹1.24 lakh and transferred it to the con. Upon reaching dwelling, Rajouria narrated all the episode to his daughter, who instantly known as her brother dwelling. The daddy acquired an uneasy relieve when his baffled son vehemently denied his involvement in a rape case.
“There have been neither a rape offence nor the police had arrested him. It was a bogus name, a brand new approach used to extort cash by making folks susceptible and helpless,” stated a police officer, including that the numbers utilized by the fraudsters are below scrutiny. In the meantime, Rajouria has additionally submitted the screenshots of the chat and his financial institution assertion, reflecting funds to the con, to the police.