‘Digital arrest’ scam: Retired army colonel, wife duped of Rs 49 lakh in Himachal

HAMIRPUR: Cybercriminals allegedly placed a retired Indian Army colonel and his wife under “digital arrest” and duped them of Rs 49 lakh in this Himachal Pradesh district, police said on Friday.

The complainant received a video call on WhatsApp in which a man introduced himself as an “officer of the Mumbai Crime Branch”.

The suspected fraudster claimed that the retired army officer’s Aadhaar was used to procure four SIM cards and open a bank account in Mumbai that was used to launder Rs 2 crore.