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.

The ordeal began on 15 September 2024, when the woman received a call from someone claiming to be from courier service provider DHL’s Andheri centre in Mumbai. The caller alleged that a parcel booked in her name contained credit cards, passports and MDMA (a prohibited drug), and insisted her phone

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