Indore- Police on Friday said unidentified fraudsters posing as Jammu and Kashmir Police officials extorted Rs 30 lakh from a 67 year old woman by linking her to a fake terror case and placing her under what is known as a digital arrest.

Digital arrest is a cyber fraud method in which scammers impersonate law enforcement officials through audio or video calls and intimidate victims into transferring money to so-called government accounts.

According to Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Rajesh Dandotiya, the woman received a call on November 23 from a man who introduced himself as a Superintendent of Police posted in Jammu and Kashmir. The caller claimed that a mobile phone recovered from a terrorist had revealed clues to a Rs 2,300 crore money laundering racket and that the woman

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