Two senior citizens duped of ₹3.25 crore in cyber fraud

Pune: In two separate cases of cyber fraud, elderly citizens were cheated of over ₹3.25 crore after fraudsters allegedly posed as officials and threatened them with arrest in fabricated money laundering cases. The cases were lodged on Wednesday.

In the first case, a 70-year-old resident of Erandwane lodged a complaint with the cyber police, stating that he was duped after he received a call from a person claiming to be “Rahul Roy” from the “Personal Data Protection of India, Andheri West” between January 13 and February 4.