A 60-year-old senior executive of a private firm in Maharashtra’s Pune city allegedly lost over ₹ 3.98 crore to online fraudsters who lured her through social media, police said on Thursday.
According to the police, the woman lost over ₹ 3.98 crore in 207 transactions to 27 different accounts over the last few months.
“The fraudsters called her posing as courier agency representatives, custom officials and asked her to pay more sums online by saying that there was jewellery and foreign currency in the consignments,” the official said.
Since September 2020, the woman lost ₹ 3,98,75,500 and approached the cyber cell recently after she realised that she had been duped, he said.
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