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74-year-old Peddar Road resident loses ₹4.5 cr to digital arrest fraud
Source: Hindustan Times — Mumbai · 3 hr ago
Summary
Over a period of about three weeks, scammers pretended to be high‑ranking police officials and threatened a senior couple with arrest, using fake Supreme Court papers to claim they were being investigated. The fraudsters convinced the couple to hand over money, resulting in a loss of roughly ₹4.5 crore.
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Over 20 days, the fraudsters impersonated senior police officers, threatened the couple with arrest and used forged Supreme Court documents to convince the couple that they were under investigation
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