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Tumakuru: In Karnataka a state government employee fell victim of digital arrested scam losses Rs 19 lakh on Tuesday.
The Karnataka police official on Monday said that the state government employee namely B.S. residing in Upparahalli in Tumakuru lodged a complaint with the Cyber Police wing on cyber fraud with him.
The police official also said that the accused had called the victim officer on the phone and introduced himself as a staffer from the Mumbai Crime Branch. The accused further charged that the money had been transferred illegally from his account.
The fraudster had claimed that there was another SIM card in the name of the victim and through that SIM card people were harassed. The various persons of the gang who spoke to him threatened that his property would be seized in connection with both cases. They also told him that he would also be arrested.
After boxing him in, the accused made a video call to Nagabhushan and appeared in police uniform. The accused issued more threats and asked him not to inform the matter to anyone.
The fraudsters then forced him to transfer the amount to other bank accounts which they gave him and maintained that the whole amount would be returned to him once the investigation was complete.
The victim transferred Rs 19 lakh to the fraudsters’ account through RTGS. Once the money transfer was done the accused disconnected the call after maintaining that they would verify the accounts and get back to him in 30 minutes and never called him back.
The victim then approached the police and complained in this regard.
The victim was told that a case was registered under his name in Mumbai’s Colaba police station and they found that a cash transfer was made using his Aadhaar number.
