Digital arrest scam: Doctor cheated of Rs 50,000 in digital arrest incident | Delhi News

New Delhi: In yet another case of digital arrest scam, a 30-year-old doctor from south Delhi was targeted. The fraudsters posing as customs officials told her that a parcel had been seized in her name and drugs were recovered in it, and subsequently forced her to transfer Rs 50,000. The doctor told police that on July 22, she received a call from fraudsters posing as Mumbai customs officials. They informed her that they had received a parcel containing illegal items, including blank passports, 58 bank cards and 140 grams of MDMA drugs. “The call was then forwarded to Mumbai’s Andheri police station, where a person disguised as a police officer came through video call and said that he needed to interrogate me remotely about the crime committed. They also handed me three documents from the CBI, including an arrest warrant, a confidentiality agreement and an asset seizure order. I was asked to provide the relevant details of all my assets and transfer money to the bank accounts specified for legalisation of the funds,” the complainant said. Several teams have been formed to solve the case. The financial transactions are being investigated to identify the bank accounts where the embezzled funds were transferred, police said.

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