In a chilling case from Noida, a female IT engineer has been duped of Rs 3.75 lakh by cyber criminals, who held her under a digital arrest for around seven hours. Heres what happenedThe victim was contacted by people on a Skype call, who posed as police officers and claimed that the parcel going from Mumbai to Taiwan contained drugs. During this period the woman was threatened and intimidated. Due to fear of going to jail, the woman transferred the money to the account of the fraudsters. The caller identified himself as FedEx Courier Service and said that a courier in your name was going from Mumbai to Taiwan which has been stopped by the customs officials at Mumbai airport. Apart from drugs and four passports, objectionable items were found from this courier. After this, the FedEx Courier Service employee transferred his call to an alleged police officer. The alleged police officer took the account and other information from the female engineer by threatening her with sending her to jail.Then Sukirti was threatened with jail citing drugs and objectionable items in the courier. After this, to assure that they were police officers, the fraudsters made a video call through Skype on the womans mobile, in which the fraudsters were wearing police uniform. However, an FIR has been lodged against the cyber criminals in Noida Sector 39 police station. According to the preliminary investigation of the police, it seems that this fraud has been carried out by a Nigerian gang.About victimChirag, resident of Amrapali Sapphire Society, Sector-45, has complained to the police that his wife Sukirti Verma is an IT engineer.What is Digital Arrest Digital arrest is a new form of cybercrime where fraudsters pretending to be law enforcement officials deceive targets into believing their Aadhaar Card, SIM, or bank account has been used for criminal activities. They make victims believe theyll be arrested if they dontt agree to be interrogated over video call and then extort money.
