India : Former Foreign Ministry official’s wife was kept

Digital Arrest Gurugram: Cyber ​​fraudsters in Gurugram duped the wife of a former official of the Ministry of External Affairs by digitally arresting her for a month and defrauded her of Rs 1.42 crore. The fraudsters are still messaging the woman. They want to extort another Rs 3 crore from her. The woman is in shock and is very scared. The 80-year-old woman, a resident of Malibu Town, told the police that she lives with a maid. Her children live abroad. On October 25 last year, a woman called on her WhatsApp number. She introduced herself as an employee of a courier company and said that a parcel was being sent to China in her name, which contained money and drugs.
The fraudsters issued an arrest warrant by showing the fear of CBI and ED. The woman withdrew Rs. 1.75 crore from FD-mutual fund and transferred it to the accounts mentioned. By threatening to be involved in terrorist activities, another demand of Rs. 3 crore was made. The woman even sold her house to raise the money. When the family came to know about this, they came to know about the fraud. The investigating officer said that a case has been registered and investigation has been started. The accounts in which the money was transferred have been seized.
Kept under digital arrest for one month
The fraudsters called the elderly woman on 25 October 2024 and implicated her in false cases. After talking on WhatsApp for 24 hours, she was digitally arrested on 26 October after creating an account on Skype. She was kept under digital arrest till 26 November 2024. During this time, the fraudsters used to talk to her in plain clothes posing as CBI and ED officers. At times, a young man wearing a police uniform was also seen. He used to talk about keeping an eye on her.
They used to put pressure to send the maid out
The woman told that during digital arrest, when the maid came in the room, the fraudsters used to say to send her out. No one should know that they are helping them in this matter. It will create problems for the woman and them. In such a situation, after getting into the trap of the fraudsters, she used to refuse the maid to come in the room. The woman told that she was not aware of this kind of fraud by digital arrest. If someone had given her any information about this, she would have been saved from being a victim of fraud.

Such an open case
The scared woman sold the house to pay Rs 3 crore to the fraudsters. She contacted her sister-in-law’s son to do some paperwork. When asked about selling the house, the woman started crying and told the whole story. She is planning to shift soon to another house in Gurugram.