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Housewife mortgages 30 tola gold to pay ₹30L in digital arrest fraud
Hindustan Times Navi Mumbai
|June 21, 2025
A 61-year-old Worli-based housewife was duped of ₹30 lakh by frauds who posed as government and police officials and placed her under digital arrest, claiming her mobile and bank accounts had been used in various frauds.
MUMBAI: They later coerced her to mortgage 300 grams of gold and pay them ₹30 lakh.
According to the central cyber police, the 61-year-old woman lived in Worli with her 62-year-old businessman husband and their son. On June 3, she received a call from a person who claimed that he was calling from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
"The caller told her that a phone number registered in her name was being used for illegal businesses like harassing people," a police officer from the central cyber police station told Hindustan Times.
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