People are Scared of the Name of Digital Arrest
These days headlines of digital arrests are being seen in the media. Be it TV channels or newspapers, news of digital arrests is seen everywhere. It is not that poor people are becoming victims of the monster of digital arrest. What is surprising is that educated people are becoming victims of the monster of digital arrest. Such fear of digital arrest is shown that educated people get trapped in that environment and fall prey to fraud of lakhs and crores of rupees. Everything is filmed just like a movie. Such cases are happening a lot. In simple language, it can be said that a flood has come. Everyday people’s hard-earned money is snatched away with just one phone call. This new trend of cheating people has started. Such cases of digital arrest are heard in the media. In normal life, even when someone known dies, for some time it is not believed and then many questions keep arising in the heart and mind. The same thing happens in cases of digital arrest and this happens only by reading or listening to such news published in the media. The person who is threatened with digital arrest is mentally tortured for hours by the people sitting behind the curtain (swindlers). When lakhs and crores of rupees are swindled from that person, his condition may be the same. Neither the person being swindled would have faith for a long time nor would he be getting answers to the questions arising in his mind and heart.
We can also say that cyber criminals are now cheating people in a modern way in the name of digital arrest. Digital arrest is an advanced method of blackmailing. In this, criminals are cheating people by introducing themselves as officers of CBI, Customs, Enforcement Directorate, Police Department, Court. Many times, people are cheated by posing as officers of courier companies. However, the truth is that there is no police procedure like digital arrest. There is no law in the police regarding this. Yet, everyday people are duped of lakhs of rupees by threatening them with digital arrest. In many cases, the amount duped is in crores. Recently, a student of IIT Bombay was duped of Rs. 7.29 lakhs by digital arrest. The fraudster hiding behind the curtain claimed to be an employee of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and extorted Rs. 7.29 lakhs from him by threatening him with “digital arrest”. The student of IIT Bombay became the victim. It is hard to believe for some time, but it is true. Mumbai Police has registered a case and news has been published in the media. This fraudster claimed to be an employee of TRAI and claimed that 17 complaints of illegal activities are registered on his mobile number. Then this fraudster asked the victim to get a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the police to save the number from being blocked. By now, the student had fallen into his trap. At that very moment, he pretended to transfer the call to the Cyber Crime Branch. So that the student gets scared and does not disconnect the call. Then the student saw a person in police uniform on WhatsApp video call. The person in police uniform asked the student for his Aadhaar number and accused him of money laundering. The thug, threatening action, forced the student to transfer Rs 29,500 through UPI. How could the thugs be satisfied with this little money. The thugs called again the next day and demanded more money from the student. Falling into their trap, the student shared his bank account details. The IIT Bombay student made a big mistake here and the thugs withdrew Rs 7 lakh from his bank account.
In a similar case, the thugs made a retired officer of Sonipat their victim. This retired officer was swindled of Rs 1.78 crore by threatening him with digital arrest. He received a call on his mobile. The retired officer was told that his name has come up in a money laundering case. An arrest warrant has also been issued against him. The thugs said that a copy of the arrest warrant was sent to his mobile number. The thugs’ work was done. They were forced to stay in a hotel for two days by threatening them of getting arrested. Due to this, Rs 1 crore 78 lakh 55 thousand were transferred through RTGS in different accounts in six days. Now the police are investigating the mobile numbers and accounts of the fraudsters.
An executive secretary of a private company in Faridabad was digitally arrested and swindled Rs 2.60 lakh. The cyber thugs threatened the victim secretary that her phone number would be used for sending obscene photos, messages and for many other crimes. The thugs scared her so much that the victim transferred Rs 2.6 lakh from her account. The thugs had promised to return the money back to her account within 24 hours. But the money was not returned to the account. So when the executive secretary of the private company realized that she had been cyber-swindled, she filed a complaint on the cyber portal. The cyber crime police have registered a case on her complaint. This case is also being investigated.
On November 18, a clever thug digitally arrested a youth from Himachal Pradesh and swindled about Rs 17.5 lakh. This cyber thug, posing as a CBI officer, kept the youth under digital arrest for two days, threatening to arrest him in a money laundering case. On the basis of the complaint, the police have registered a case and started investigation. The youth receives calls from an unknown number. The caller, claiming to be a CBI officer, threatened to arrest the youth in a money laundering case. He said that a raid would be conducted at his house soon. For two days, the accused fraudster kept calling the youth, scaring him of arrest. The person posing as a CBI officer said that so far 200 people have been arrested in the case and now he too will be arrested. If you want to avoid arrest, transfer the money to your account immediately. To avoid the fear of arrest, the youth went to the bank and transferred Rs 17.5 lakh to the account mentioned by the accused fraudster.
Nobody knows in which corner of the country the cyber fraudster is cheating you. These cyber fraudsters are succeeding in cheating people with their fraud. Police officers are making people aware. Still, people are losing their money due to the fear of digital arrest. But it is also true that a little caution can save us all from falling prey to the dreaded monster of digital arrest.
