27 October,2016 12:00 PM IST | | Vijay Kumar Yadav
The crime branch has arrested a fraudster for duping the wife of an army colonel in Colaba in Mumbai of Rs 80,000 by posing as a senior executive of a bank
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The crime branch has arrested a fraudster for duping the wife of an army colonel in Colaba of Rs 80,000 by posing as a senior executive of a bank.
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Arrested accused identified as Samir Kasam Shaikh, a Mira Road resident, obtained the victim's bank details by telling her about some new RBI guidelines, later making unauthorised transactions. The police believe that the fraud was the handiwork of a professional gang and more arrests are likely to follow.
According to the police, the complainant mentioned that in November last year, when she was going through her husband's email, she came across a message from her bank. She told the police that in the mail, a bank executive had sought her account details, as it needed to be updated as per the RBI guidelines. The mail even had a link.
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She did as asked. A day later, she got a call from a bank representative to confirm the details. Hours after that, she got a message that Rs 79,500 had been deducted from her account.
During preliminary probe it was revealed that the beneficiary bank account belongs to a person Pandya in Palanpur, Gujarat, a source said.
