Mumbai: In a shocking incident, a 36-year-old woman lawyer from Andheri (East) was made to strip naked on video call and transfer Rs 50,000 to scammers impersonating cyber police. The scamsters then used the woman’s nude photos to blackmail her for days. The woman was first threatened with arrest in a money laundering case, to avoid which she was made to check into a Powai hotel and electronically transfer the money. She was told she had to be at an isolated place for the "confidential inquiry" and video-inspected without clothes by a woman officer for "weapons and injury marks", as per a TOI report.
Victim Narrates What Exactly Happened
In her complaint, the victim said the person who called claimed to be from TRAI and said her SIM card had been used in a laundering case and would be blocked. "I was informed that I had to get clearance from the cops to stop SIM deactivation," she added.
"I was then connected to a person posing as a police officer from the Andheri cyber cell, who claimed that an FIR had been registered against me and that I was going to be arrested. The fake police officer instructed me to go to an isolated place for a confidential inquiry. Fearing the worst, I checked into a hotel room in Powai," the 36-year-old lawyer said.
She explained how she undressed herself inside the hotel room and was told to stand naked and transfer Rs 50,000 to a bank account.
"Before leaving, the scammer warned the victim not to reveal anything about the confidential inquiry to anyone," the FIR stated, quoted the report.
The police have asked the bank for the account details where the money was transferred and a cyber team is looking into the case.