President of Shela based Mudra Institute of Communication and Advertisement (MICA) Shailendra Mehta (PhD) has filed a complaint in Cyber Crime police station of city for losing Rs. 1,15,11,250 in an online fraud in which he is a victim.
Fraudsters who identified themselves as CBI and Mumbai Cyber Crime officials threatened Mehta and managed to get huge sum of over Rs. 1.15 crore from him through RTGS in two accounts of Punjab National Bank(PNB) under the names of Quality Fruit Traders and Shivam Charitable Trust.
Mehta, a senior academician who was previously with Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad, has in his complaint stated that on 20th March he was contacted over his mobile phone by someone identifying self as Jason from FedEx courier and connected Mehta to someone identifying self as Prakash from Mumbai Police’s cyber cell.
Mehta was told that a parcel in his name him to Taiwan was stopped by Mumbai custom as it had five passports, three mobile phones, one laptop, 5 kg clothes and 200 gram MDMA drugs. Mehta was further told by a fake Mumbai Cyber Cell officer Prakash that a politician Nawab Malik who is in jail in money laundering and terror funding case had opened 400 fake bank accounts among which three were in the name of Mehta, and they were opened in Goa, Mumbai and Hyderabad.
Later Mehta was given Skype I.D. for talk privately and was told that this was the case of money laundering and terror funding. Mehta was told to leave office and go to home and and keep the phone charged for whole night, as an officer from Cyber Cell department would take to him next morning.
Mehta was then sent a letter with CBI logo over Skype. Also two persons identifying selves as Balwantsingh Rajput and George Mathew sent fake CBI warrant over Skype to him. Mehta was told that the transactions from his ICICI bank account were not appearing in his account but in RBI server.
Mehta was told to deposit the money in two accounts and was also assured that the money would return to his account at soonest after checking in RBI server. Accordingly Mehta sent over Rs. 1.15 crore to two accounts through RTGS but the sum didn’t return. When Mehta contacted the fraudsters, he realized he was defrauded. After contacting ICICI and visiting PNB branch, he filed complaint in Cyber Crime police station.