{"id":1889,"date":"2024-04-12T01:57:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T01:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anticorruptiontv.com\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2024-04-12T01:57:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T01:57:26","slug":"a-52-year-old-software-engineer-from-the-city-was-allegedly-defrauded-of-rs-2-24-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anticorruptiontv.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/a-52-year-old-software-engineer-from-the-city-was-allegedly-defrauded-of-rs-2-24-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"A 52-year-old software engineer from the city was allegedly defrauded of Rs 2.24 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span>Bengaluru:<\/span><\/strong><span>\u00a0Cybercrime cases are increasing recently, a woman in Bengaluru has been cheated online of Rs 14 lakh. Soon after the loss, they allegedly duped a 52-year-old software engineer from the city of <strong>Rs 2.24 crore<\/strong> by pretending to be officials of <strong>the Delhi Customs and Narcotics Control Bureau.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Kumaraswamy Sivakumar, a techie from Jakkur,<\/strong> was cheated in the same way as a 29-year-old woman lawyer from Bengaluru was cheated of<strong> Rs 14.57 lakh.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Between March 18 and March 27, fraudsters called Kumaraswamy, a software engineer, in the guise of customs officials, saying, &#8216;Your air parcel has been seized at Delhi customs. He lied that it contains fake passport, bank ATM cards, <strong>MDMA drugs<\/strong> in your name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Later, the matter came to the knowledge of the Anti-Narcotics Bureau. So they said that a complaint should be filed. The fraudster gave an instruction to download the Skype app to file a complaint, and the techie who downloaded the Skype app believed it and did as the accused told him to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Download, forced to come online. Then the man dressed in what looks like a police uniform, you also have a money laundering case against you. He threatened that the CBI would inquire about this. Finally, he asked for money to close the case. Police said that some account numbers have also been given.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Shivakumar told the police that he paid Rs 2.24 crore in eight installments through <strong>RTGS and IMPS<\/strong> in stages to the fraudsters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Realizing that he had been duped, Shivakumar lodged a complaint with the Bengaluru North East Cyber \u200b\u200bCrime Police Station on April 5. The police have registered a case against the unknown fraudsters and are continuing the investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to police sources, since the beginning of the month, around 25 people have fallen victim to this type of fraud under the North-East Cyber \u200b\u200bCrime Police Station and have lost Rs 4r crore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru:\u00a0Cybercrime cases are increasing recently, a woman in Bengaluru has been cheated online of Rs 14 lakh. Soon after the loss, they allegedly duped a 52-year-old software engineer from the city of Rs 2.24 crore by pretending to be officials of the Delhi Customs and Narcotics Control Bureau. Kumaraswamy Sivakumar, a techie from Jakkur, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,142,251,119],"tags":[108,100,98,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-1889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anti-corruption-tv","8":"category-crime-news","9":"category-karnataka-state-police","10":"category-police-news","11":"tag-anit-corruption-tv-india","12":"tag-bengaluru","13":"tag-karnataka-news","14":"tag-police-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A 52-year-old software engineer from the city was allegedly defrauded of Rs 2.24 crore - Anticorruption TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This web-based channel would bring human rights issues to audiences across the Country.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.anticorruptiontv.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/a-52-year-old-software-engineer-from-the-city-was-allegedly-defrauded-of-rs-2-24-crore\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A 52-year-old software engineer from the city was allegedly defrauded of Rs 2.24 crore - 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