Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)
A 39-year-old software engineer lost Rs.33.3 lakh to online fraudsters who posing as police personnel from Mumbai threatened to book him under money laundering case before emptied his bank account on last Monday .
The victim,Dinesh Pathak,realized that he had been cheated and approached Southeast cyber crime police with a complaint on Thursday.
Based on the complaint the police are now trying to track down the accused with the help of bank account transactions .
In his complaint,Mr.Dinesh said that he received a call on his mobile and the caller introducing himself as executive of fedex international courier company.
The caller said that there was a parcel using his aadhar details containing passport,synthetic drugs and electronic gadgets.
He also informed that since its illegal and amounts to money laundering he had roped in Mumbai police .
While Mr.Dinesh was trying to reason another person who joined the conversation forced him to switch to skype and started questioning him posing as DCP from Mumbai police.
Mr.Dinesh cooperated and shared the personal details including the bank account details following which the fake cop asked him to transfer the money online to a bank account for verification.
He assured him that the transferred money will be reverted to him after the completion of procedure.The duo also threatened him to book under money laundering is he is not cooperating with the probe.
The cheating came to light when as soon as the entire saving was transferred from the account,the accused went incommunicado.
After repeated attempts to reach Dinesh discussed this with his friends and confirmed that he become victim of the cyber fraud.
This is the most common form of cyber fraud as the conmen misuse the name of police officials and army personnel to lure gullible people to cheat, a senior officer,said.
