Retired female teacher Anju Singhal has been cheated in Meerut. Kept under digital arrest for 9 days after threatening to implicate him in money laundering case. Threatened to send him to jail if he talked or met anyone. Due to fear, the woman withdrew all her savings from the bank, FD and post office.
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A call came on my mobile at 9 am on 29th November.
Retired teacher Anju Singhal, resident of New Prempuri of Railway Road police station area, has said in the report that she received a call on her mobile at 9 am on November 29. The caller introduced himself as Chirag Thakur, an officer of TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India). He said that a money laundering report has been registered against you. A mobile SIM on your ID was taken from Gurugram, Haryana and used for money laundering. Due to this you are digital arrested.
Made to talk to many fake officers one after the other
After this, Anju was told that now senior officer of Haryana Police, Ranbir Singh will call you. After some time, a video call came on Anju’s mobile. The caller introduced himself as Ranbir Singh. He was in police uniform. After asking some personal things, he asked to transfer the call to SI Anurag Chahal. Anurag Chahal kept calling and messaging him. After this he made him talk to his senior officer Raghunath Pandey on video call.
Your name has come up in Naresh Goyal’s money laundering case.
Raghunath Pandey said that your name has come up in the money laundering case of Naresh Goyal. You will have to transfer your entire bank balance and FD etc. amount to us. After verification, the entire amount will be sent back to your account. If your FD breaks prematurely, RBI will pay the compensation. He kept talking to Anju Singhal on video call for three and a half minutes. The accused sent him two letters on WhatsApp. One contained information related to the case and the other contained a confidential agreement.
Teacher got scared, kept depositing all the money
A warning was written to send him to jail if he told anything about the case. Anju was asked to send a selfie every two hours. If they did not do so, they were threatened with sending them to jail. Anju was extremely scared by the words of cyber thugs.
On November 29, she went to the Sadar branch of SBI and transferred Rs 1,17,913 to the account given by the fraudsters. The thugs kept scaring them continuously. The next day, Anju went to the bank and got her FD broken and transferred Rs 3,50,023. It was Sunday on 1st December. Cyber thugs kept making video calls to him continuously. Kept threatening that whatever money is in the account, send it to us. Will get back after investigation. On December 2, Anju Singhal went to Bank of Baroda located in Abulen. From there he broke his second FD and transferred Rs 1,40,017. There were Rs 3,00,023 in the post office. She could not go to the post office on 3 December.
After breaking the FD, that money was also transferred.
On December 4, she went to the post office and got the MIS policy canceled and deposited the money in the bank account. It took 3 days for the money to arrive in the bank account. Meanwhile, cyber thugs kept threatening them. On December 7, he went to the bank and transferred Rs 3,00,023 to the mentioned account. On December 8, cyber thugs called and said that since it was Sunday, further action would not be taken. After this a thug kept messaging him continuously. After this Anju Singhal realized that she was being cheated. Anju Singhal called the cyber crime helpline but could not reach her. A report has been lodged in the cyber crime police station on behalf of Anju Singhal.
