Man from Keralam arrested for involvement in digital arrest scam
Coimbatore police have arrested a Kerala man for his role in a 'digital arrest' scam that defrauded a retired doctor of nearly ₹1 crore. The suspect allegedly facilitated the transfer of stolen funds through his bank account for a commission.
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Highlights the growing prevalence of sophisticated cyber-financial crimes and the role of money mules in digital fraud networks.
The cybercrime police in Coimbatore city on Friday arrested a man from Keralam for alleged involvement in a ‘digital arrest’ scam in which a retired government doctor from the city was duped of ₹98.03 lakh in August this year.
Rajesh K.R. (46), a native of Manganam in Vijayapuram panchayat in Kottayam district, was arrested by a team supervised by cybercrime Inspector R. Kavithalakshmi from his State.
According to the cybercrime police, scamsters contacted the woman doctor and posed as law enforcement officers. They told her that fraudulent transactions had been detected in her bank account, for which she was kept under a digital arrest. She was made to transact the money in her account to different accounts on the pretext of a verification process. The scamsters cut all contacts with her after she sent a total of ₹98,03,495 in 10 transactions.
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