One day, a WhatsApp call was recieved to the elderly homemaker with the claim that a courier in her name was intercepted in Taiwan.

Mumbai: A senior citizen couple from Cuffe Parade lost a whopping Rs 3.8 crore to fake cops, who kept fleecing them for a month after trapping them in the digital arrest scam. Such con deploys fear as a tactic to extort money from targets by falsely accusing them of illegal activities and threatening arrest.

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

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.

Scammers did this in the guise of a fake money laundering case against the woman and it all started when she got a WhatsApp call

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.