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In yet another incident of a digital arrest scam, a 24-year-old air hostess from Maharashtra’s Kalyan lost Rs 10 lakh to fraudsters as she was duped into transferring the amount to “avoid police action” over “money laundering,” an official said on Saturday.
In November last year, the air hostess, originally from Thane, received calls from unidentified numbers claiming that a parcel she had allegedly sent had failed to reach its destination in Iran.
When the victim informed the caller that she had not sent any parcel, the caller, during a video call, alleged that her name was linked to a money laundering case and threatened her with arrest, news agency PTI reported.
The fraudster then shared links on the woman’s phone and coerced her into transferring Rs 9.93 lakh before ending the call.
Realising she had been duped, the woman approached the police for help.
The police traced the phone number used by the fraudsters to an overseas location.
An FIR has been registered under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Information Technology Act. No arrests have been made so far.
