Elderly duped of Rs 1.5 crore in digital arrest scam

BHUBANESWAR: Cyber criminals, posing as officials of central enforcement agencies, have allegedly duped an elderly man of a whopping Rs 1.5 crore on the pretext that founder and former chairman of Jet Airways Naresh Goyal had lodged a money laundering complaint against him.

Police said the complainant, a chartered accountant by procession, was trapped in the digital arrest scam for the last 10 days. “The scamsters contacted the victim and told him that they were officers of central enforcement agencies. They claimed that Goyal had lodged a money laundering complaint against him,” said a senior police officer.