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  • 1 week ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Nitasha Natu |Mateen Hafeez

    In a shocking incident, a retired pathologist and her sister were swindled out of Rs 46 lakh in a digital arrest scam. Posing as CBI officers, fraudsters accused the senior citizen of money laundering via WhatsApp calls. They coerced her into transferring funds to a fake 'CBI bank account' under the guise of verification. A retired pathologist was duped by fraudsters in a digital arrest scam that ran for two months.

  • 1 week ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Mateen Hafeez |Nitasha Natu

    An 82-year-old woman from South Mumbai was defrauded of nearly Rs 50 lakh in a digital arrest scam. Scammers posing as Mumbai Police officers accused her of money laundering and pornography, threatening a three-year prison sentence. A senior citizen from south Mumbai lost nearly Rs 50 lakh in a digital arrest scam where she was threatened with a prison sentence of three years if she failed to pay up. Besides money laundering, the scammers also accused the woman of pornography.

  • 2 weeks ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Nitasha Natu |Mateen Hafeez

    News80-year-old pays 30L for bail from digital arrest to ‘court’Mumbai: An 80-year-old woman from the eastern suburbs lost Rs 30 lakh to fraudsters who created a fake Supreme Court courtroom as part of a digital arrest scam. An "online hearing" in the courtroom with a fake judge and policemen in attendance. The East Cyber Police registered an FIR on March 29. The senior citizen lives with her son. On Jan 15, she received a phone call from a woman who claimed to be a telecom authority employee.

  • 3 weeks ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Richa Pinto |Nitasha Natu

    Mumbai: Andheri locals are bracing for another set of traffic snarls as BMC's Gokhale Bridge works enter the last phase. As works on the approach road from Gokhale Bridge to Telly Gully Bridge begin, traffic police have issued a few diversions from April 1 to May 15. For instance, there will be a no-entry from Gold Spot Junction to Gokhale Bridge (westbound) and from Gokhale Bridge to Gold Spot Junction (eastbound).

  • 3 weeks ago | timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Mateen Hafeez |Nitasha Natu

    Mumbai: A leading company that manufactures plastics products, having its offices in Mumbai and Ahmedabad, has been swindled of Rs 11 lakh by two men posing as Indian Army men. A criminal offence has been registered by the Cyber Police and a probe is on. On Dec 2 last year, an executive from the company's Ahmedabad office received a call on his company phone from one Rajeev Ranjan, who introduced himself as an Army man.

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