Cybercriminals swindle Rs 1.3 crore from 73-year-old Noida woman after 5-day Skype ‘interrogation’

A 73-year-old woman in Noida was allegedly conned out of Rs 1.3 crore by cybercriminals who claimed that a parcel for her had been intercepted in Mumbai with some illegal items in it and that her Aadhaar card had been linked with six ”accounts” involved in money-laundering.

Shuchi Agrawal, a resident of Sector 49 in Noida, said in a police complaint that she received a call from an unknown number on June 13, where a woman introduced herself as a representative of the Andheri branch of the Fedex courier company. She was subsequently subjected to “digital interrogation” for five days, till June 17.