The ordeal began when the woman received a WhatsApp call claiming that a parcel she had allegedly sent to Taiwan had been intercepted by authorities.

For over a month, a housewife from Mumbai was placed under "digital custody" and defrauded of Rs 3.8 crore by scammers posing as law enforcement officers looking into a false money laundering case

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Police said the complainant is a 77-year-old homemaker, who lives with her retired husband in South Mumbai and became a victim to a fake money laundering charge, in which she was threatened with arres

A 77-year-old woman from south Mumbai was scammed out of Rs 3.8 crore by cyber fraudsters posing as law enforcement officials. Threatened with arrest in a fake money laundering case, she was kept under "digital custody" for over a month,

A 77-year-old Mumbai woman endured a month-long "digital detention" orchestrated by cyber fraudsters impersonating law enforcement. Threatened with arrest in a fabricated money laundering case, she was coerced into transferring ₹3.