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Man poses as cyber cop, dupes West Bengal woman of Rs 73,000

  • Bidhannagar police arrested a fraudster who duped a housewife from Baguati, impersonating a cyber crime branch officer
  • Fraudster told, a complaint had been lodged against her for missing loan EMIs and threatened to arrest her if she did not pay
  • Fraudster posed as a police officer who actually worked at the PS but was recently transferred,” another officer said

03 Mar 2023

Man poses as cyber cop, dupes West Bengal woman of Rs 73,000

Bidhannagar police have arrested a fraudster who duped a housewife from Baguati of Rs 73,000, impersonating a cyber crime branch officer. He told the woman that a complaint had been lodged against her for missing loan EMIs and threatened to arrest her if she did not pay.

The man, identified as Mithun Mondal, also defrauded a Bangur Avenue woman of Rs 13 lakh, posing as an insurance company official.

“Mondal was arrested in a separate fraud case in Lake Town on February 18 where he confessed to defrauding the people of Baguiati. And in the case of a Bangur Avenue resident, he claimed to help her revive a lapsed policy and duped her. The woman filed the complaint on February 14. The accused was nabbed from a rented accommodation in New Town,” said an officer of the Bidhannagar Commissionerate.

“The woman took a personal loan from a finance company and missed the February EMI. Knowing the exact loan repayment schedule, the fraudster posed as a police officer who actually worked at the police station but was recently transferred,” another police officer said.

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