Senior citizen loses Rs 1.8 crores in drugs-in-parcel fraud

A senior citizen in Mumbai, who is a director in several companies, lost Rs 1.8 crore to cyber fraudsters who threatened to him by posing as cops and duped him in a drugs-in-parcel fraud.

According to police, on March 19, the septuagenarian received a call from a person who claimed to be from a courier company. The person claimed that a parcel he had sent from Lucknow to Myanmar had been rejected as customs officers found nearly 20 passports and 150 grams of narcotics in it. The person also claimed that his Aadhar card had been given as ID proof.