Drugs-in-parcel scam: Made to sit in locked room, woman loses Rs 11 lakh to cyber criminals

A Pune woman working as manager with a private global bank, who was targeted in a drugs-in-parcel scam, was coerced to sit before a camera in a locked room as the cyber criminals siphoned Rs 11 lakh from her account within minutes by manipulating her into giving remote access to her phone.

An FIR has been registered at Chatushrungi police station by a 26-year-old woman who works as a manager with the Pune unit of a global banking major. In the second week of May this year, she received a call from a man posing as executive of a courier company.