Cybercriminals are taking use of the Cybercrime Portal’s 1930 toll-free helpline number, which is meant for reporting cybercrime events, to trick people.
An IT professional was forced to participate in a Skype video conversation by fraudsters in one such case that was reported to the Cyberabad police. They pretended to be using the complainant’s credentials to ship drugs from Mumbai to Taiwan.
Upon joining the video conference, he observed that the con artists were using the Skype ID “POLICE 1930.” He communicated with them thinking they were actual police because it looked like the cybercrime reporting system, only to be conned out of Rs 29.55 lakh.
According to the police, the complainant, a resident of Hafeezpet, first received a call in August 2024. The caller stated that he had a package scheduled to be shipped from Mumbai to Taiwan.
The caller told the complainant that the parcel had been booked using his Aadhar ID and that it contained credit cards and drugs that had been seized by Mumbai Customs after the complainant denied shipping any parcels.
The Mumbai Crime Branch notified the complainant that a case had been filed against him. He was subsequently instructed to establish a Skype connection with the Mumbai Police Cyber Crime Wing. Upon accessing Skype to have a video conference, he established a connection with an ID bearing the login ‘POLICE 1930’.
During the video conference, a fraudster posing as a Cyber Crime Wing police officer requested that the complainant send a picture of his Aadhar card.
He was subsequently informed that 20 joint bank accounts had been registered in his name and that his Aadhar was connected to a global money laundering case.
The impersonator threatened to freeze the complainant’s bank accounts if he did not comply, telling him that his accounts needed to be investigated for suspicious activity. In addition, the scammers forced him to transfer money to the accounts they had indicated and threatened to arrest him for seven years.
The Cyber Crime Police of Cyberabad have opened a case and are looking into the situation.
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