Cyber fraudsters dupe Army veteran of Rs 3.1 crore after threatening to book him in money laundering case

‘THE MUMBAI police have launched a search for you.’ An Army veteran in his 60s was told by a caller posing as an officer of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). In the elaborate cyber fraud orchestrated over two weeks, the veteran was swindled for a whopping Rs 3.1 crore for fake reasons including prosecution for money laundering, CBI case, charges of harassment and even issues of national security.

An FIR was registered at the Cyber Crime police station in Pune by the veteran. In the first week of May, he received a call from a man who identified himself as a TRAI officer and said that a search had been launched for him by Mumbai Police.