Digi arrest scam: Senior couple loses ₹3.8 cr, IIT-B student duped of ₹7.29L

A senior citizen couple from Cuffe Parade lost a whopping Rs3.8 crore to fake cops, who kept fleecing them for a month after trapping them in the digital arrest scam.

- Poonam Apraj and Megha Kuchik

Such con deploys fear as a tactic to extort money from targets by falsely accusing them of illegal activities and threatening arrest.

In this case involving a 77-year-old woman and her 75-year-old husband, the frauds kept them under constant surveillance via video calls and asked them not to step out if they didn't want to be arrested. The vicious cycle started when the woman received a WhatsApp call in July and the caller told her that a suspicious parcel, destined for Taiwan, had been intercepted in her name. The consignment contained MDMA drugs, five passports, a bank card and 4 kg of clothes, said the fraud.