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Cops bust Fedex, 'CBI officer' scams after ₹3.4 crore extorted
The New Indian Express
|September 24, 2024
THE Tamil Nadu police's cybercrime wing recently handled two cases where the victims transferred a total of around 3.4 crore to cyber fraudsters who posed as Mumbai police (Fedex scam) and a CBI officer (Telecom scam).
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An official statement from the state police on Monday said that the first victim was contacted by a fraudster posing as Mumbai police and threatened action claiming that a parcel containing drugs had arrived in the victim's name.
The criminal managed to extort ₹1.18 crore from different bank accounts of the victim. A case was registered and a team arrested Rameshbhai Badabhi Bhogra and agents Paresh Narshibhai and Vivek from Surat in Gujarat who had opened the victim's accounts.
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