Mumbai: A 70-year-old retired government official lost Rs21.55 lakh to scammers, who posed as policemen and kept him under digital arrest from August 9 to 28 – 19 days at a stretch. What's more concerning is that the elderly was left so shocked that he took a month to share his ordeal with a relative.

According to the police, the Nagpur resident received a random video call on August 9 and saw a person in a police uniform. The fake cop identified himself as an officer from the Colaba police station. He told the elderly that his name has cropped up in a terror funding case wherein money had been transferred from his bank account. Read Also Maharashtra Govt's Diwali Gift For Mumbaikars: Document Adjudication Now Allowed At Any Stamp Office...

The scammer then shared a bogus arrest warr

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