Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
Despite crack down by city police,courier scam continue unabated as a 52-year-old businessman from HSR Layout and 36-year-old private firm employee were duped by fake Mumbai police and courier executives before fleeing away with a total Rs.2.2 Crore in separate incidents on Wednesday and Thursday .
In the first case,the victim Tarak Shah,received a call from an unknown number claiming to be representative of international courier company and informed him that a parcel from Mumbai to Taiwan booked in his name was seized by Mumbai police for smuggling drugs.
The caller even asked him to speak to him in Skype app and alerted that the Mumbai police is investigating the case and asked to cooperate.
Next day Mr.Shah received a call from the person claiming to be from Mumbai crime branch and accessed his details and bank accounts before transferring a total sum of Rs.1,98,73,760.
Shocked Mr.Shah realized that the money was withdrawn illegally and filed a complaint with the police on Thursday.
Earlier on Wednesday the accused using similar Modus Operandi,cheated,Tapapriyo Maitra and transferred a total sum of Rs.23,28,277.
The victim,Tapapriyo Maitra, from Tavarekere filed a complaint with the Southeast division police .
It may be recalled that the North Division Cyber Crime busted a racket and arrested a gang of eight people in December 1 this year for cheating people in the name of drugs found in the courier parcel in their names.
The accused were trapped when some of the accused came to withdraw the cash transferred to one of the account in RBL bank account and withdrawn in Davangere .
This is the most common form of cyber crime targetting gullible people in the name of police,a senior police officer,said.
In order to tackle the growing courier scam effectively, city police commissioner B.Dayananda had set up a special Investigation team headed by DCP, traffic,east division, to probe the related cases effectively .
