Sanyasi loses Rs 27 lakh after cyber criminals posing as policemen threatened to arrest him

THREATENING THAT his identity was being misused in dark web, a 67-year-old sanyasi living in Pune was swindled of Rs 27 lakh by cyber criminals who posed as Mumbai Police officers and threatened to arrest him for illegal purchase of drugs and arms and forced him to remain on video call for ‘surveillance.’

An FIR was registered earlier this week at Parvati police station by a 67-year-old sanyasi who has a residence in Pune and also lives at an Ashram in Raigad district. In the first week of July, he received a call from a woman who identified herself as an officer from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).