Overview
- Mumbai Police’s Central Cyber unit registered an FIR against unidentified accused under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita, 2023, and provisions of the Information Technology Act.
- The victim was first told by a caller posing as a TRAI employee named Vijay Khanna that her SIM would be blocked due to alleged misuse of her Aadhaar number.
- A subsequent caller pretended to be from Colaba police, named a money-laundering case with Naresh Goyal as a co-accused, and then transferred her to a woman impersonating DGP Rashmi Shukla.
- Under instructions to secure a No Objection Certificate, the woman transferred about ₹1.08 crore via NEFT/RTGS between October 31 and November 7 after being promised a refund within 48 hours.
- In a separate, widely reported Bengaluru case, a 57-year-old senior IT professional allegedly lost ₹31.83 crore over six months to DHL and CBI impersonators who kept her under a fake house arrest on Skype, drawing intense online discussion over the size of the loss.