On the pretext of Mumbai Police, a woman from Gurugram was cheated of Rs 20 lakh over the phone.

Posing as police officers, fraudsters allegedly duped a woman of Rs 20 lakh here.

Officials gave this information on Tuesday.

The victim, a resident of Sector 43, received a call on March 3 from someone claiming to be from a courier company.

The caller told him that a parcel from him had been seized by Customs as it contained illegal goods.

The caller also told him that his call would be transferred to the Mumbai Police.

First transferred Rs 4,99,999.

The next callers claimed to be "Deputy Commissioner Balsingh Rajput" and "Inspector Ajay Bansal" from the Cyber ​​Crime Unit of Mumbai Police.

The duo claimed that the victim's Aadhaar was used in several "criminal transactions and money laundering" from her three "additional bank accounts" in Mumbai.

On being told that she did not have a bank account in Mumbai, the duo asked the victim to make transactions to verify their accounts.

The victim said in her police complaint, "They asked me to transfer Rs 4,99,999 and said it was a secret code to start a financial probe."

Case filed after complaint

After transferring money, the duo asked the victim to transfer more money as "security deposit" to conduct "inertia financial investigation".

"I transferred Rs 20,37,194 in six transactions..." she alleged. Based on the woman's complaint, sections 420 of the Indian Penal Code were registered against unknown persons at the Cyber ​​Crime (East) police station on Monday. (Fraud) and the FIR was registered under the provisions of the IT Act.

Police said that investigation is being done.