MUMBAI: A 36-year-old woman lawyer was induced to strip on a video call and transfer Rs 50,000 to cyber scammers recently.
The fraudsters first threatened the woman with arrest in a money laundering case. To avoid it, she was told she had to be at an isolated place for a "confidential inquiry" and video-inspected without clothes by a woman officer for "weapons and injury marks". She was also made to electronically transfer the money.
The woman realised she had been duped and approached the police when she kept getting messages for more money with her nude photos.
Police officers said the woman was at a mall in Powai on Wednesday when she got the call about an FIR against her. She was told she was suspected of involvement in a case related to Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal, who had been arrested by ED and is out on bail.
Instructed about the "confidental inquiry", she checked into a hotel and removed her clothes as she Twas made to believe it was a routine check to ascertain a suspect's identity, said a cop. "Once home, she narrated the ordeal to her husband. Later, she started receiving calls for more money.".
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