Tarun Karthick
Sri Vijaya Puram, 05 July 2025
A lady from Rangat was cheated of ₹2.7 lakh in a web based fraud after receiving a faux WhatsApp name claiming her son was concerned in a legal case.
According to the FIR registered on the Cyber Crime Police Station in Sri Vijaya Puram, the incident occurred on twenty second June 2025. The mom acquired a WhatsApp name from an unknown quantity. The caller claimed to be from the police station and instructed her that her elder son was of their custody. He mentioned one in all her son’s pals had been arrested in a rape case and had named her son as being concerned. The caller additionally instructed her that the sufferer woman had died, and her son would quickly be arrested.
During the decision, the mom heard a voice within the background that appeared like her son’s, which made her imagine the caller’s story. The caller then demanded cash, saying that she may save her son by paying a specific amount to senior officers, police workers, and even to the sufferer’s household as a type of “settlement.”
Out of worry and below stress, the mom agreed to pay and was given a number of telephone numbers by which cost directions had been despatched. She ended up transferring a complete of ₹2,70,000 from totally different financial institution accounts in a number of transactions.
Later, when her son didn’t reply to her calls, the mom and different members of the family panicked. After a while, the son answered a name from his youthful brother and mentioned he had been sleeping at house and was unaware of any such incident.
Realizing she had been cheated, the mom lodged a grievance on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal and later submitted a written grievance to the Cyber Crime Police Station. The police have registered a case below Sections 318(4) and 319(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, and investigation is ongoing.
People are suggested to remain alert and never fall for such calls. Always confirm with your loved ones members instantly. Police don’t ask for cash in change for dropping instances. Any suspicious calls demanding cash ought to be reported instantly to the Cyber Crime Helpline at 1930 or on cybercrime.gov.in. (Story Based on FIR)
