Dr.Thomas (Sub-Editor)
A 30-year-old private firm employee from the city has lost his saving of Rs.1.9 crore to courier scam and has filed a complaint with the Central Crime Branch police on Tuesday.
The victim Aditya Kumar Jain,in his complaint said that he had received a call on his mobile from an unknown person claiming to be from Mumbai custom’s office , stating that a parcel in his name sent to foreign country has been withheld for having 5 passport,200 grams of MDMA,laptops and cash.
The caller informed him that as per the protocol the Mumbai cyber crime police has been alerted and they are probing the case.
The calls soon continued from different people who claimed to be custom officials and Mumbai cyber crime police threatening Mr.Jain that they are probing his possible link with money laundering case and sought his bank account details for verification.
Scared Jain shared his bank account details for which the accused accessed his bank accounts and withdrawn saving total worth Rs.1.95 crore from two different bank accounts for two days .
The fraud came to light when Mr.Jain shared his experience with his friends and relatives before approaching the police .
Despite repeated request and awareness campaigns on social media, people are becoming victims of the courier scam and losing their life savings, a senior police officer, said .
Meanwhile the DCP North Division Cyber Crime Police organized awareness campaigns inviting college students to the station and given a pep talk by the senior police officials on how to safeguard themselves from the cyber crimes .
The police officials shared their experience and explained about different Mode of the cyber frauds and trained the students on activate two step authentication for all social media platforms as preventive measures .
