A 57-year-old woman from Indiranagar in Bengaluru was allegedly defrauded of Rs 31.83 crore in one of Karnataka’s biggest cybercrime cases, after a gang of impostors digitally “arrested” her for over six months using threats, forged documents and continuous video surveillance.
According to the FIR filed with the East Cybercrime Police, the elaborate operation began with a single phone call about a suspicious parcel and spiralled into a marathon of coercion, manipulation and financial extortion.
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