An 84 Year 84-year-old pathologist with a running practice was duped of close to ₹46 Lakh in a digital arrest scam in Andheri, in another blatant Mumbai crime. The crime happened in February 2025, and an FIR has now been filed.
The modus operandi was the common one, with everything beginning with a phone call, followed by accusations of money laundering, and then requests to transfer all the money into the specified accounts. This time, the conmen went a step ahead and took details of several relatives of the woman, and the transfers were made from all the accounts, including the accounts of the victim.
While the unfortunate cases of such scams are increasing, one question that crops up in the mind is the role of the banks that transfer such large amounts of money at one go. In this particular case, there were at least 3 major bank transactions, amounting to 15 Lakh and ₹8 Lakh.
Any person having such significant amounts in a bank account would probably be a premium account holder, and should have some bank employee just a call away, like a relationship manager. If that was the case, it is intriguing to know why nobody from the bank reached out to the customer to at least find out why the particular transactions were being made.
What’s distressing in a Mumbai crime like this, is that there are absolutely no checks and balances by any of the banks when such foremost transactions happen, probably in a suspicious manner.
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