Man Scams The Scammers Posing As Mumbai Police By Saying Dawood Ibrahim Is His 'Chacha'
There is a considerable increase in the number of online frauds that are taking place in the country and one of the biggest reasons behind this increase is the fact that scamsters have become sophisticated and they are leaving no stone unturned in making a person believe that they are genuinely helping him and for this purpose, they pose as even police officers too.
Nowadays a new type of fraud has come into light, a person gets a call from IVR informing that his phone number will get blocked in 2 hours and he should press 9 in order to know more details. If the person presses 9, then he gets to talk to a person who poses as an official from the telecom division and informs the caller that a police complaint has been filed against his number for illegal advertising and harassing texts. The call is then forwarded to police station and then the person receives a video call from an SI in Mumbai Police who seems to be very cooperative. In order to get correct personal details of the person, he may receive one or two more video calls from the sophisticated scamsters who pose as police officials.
An X user has narrated an incident and he said that the entire call lasted around 1 hr and for the first 30 minutes, he was also convinced that it is genuine. But in the end before cutting the call, the X user outwitted those scamsters by saying that famous underworld don, Dawood Ibrahim is his uncle.
This is what he wrote on X, “#FraudAlert: Today morning I received a call from better sophisticated scammers. The entire call lasted about 1 hour and I was quite convinced that it was genuine. The scammers initially called me through an automated voice call (+91 8112-178017) saying it’s from @TRAI. The robot said my number would get blocked in 2 hours and press 9 for more info.
That led me to the first guy who pretended to be from the Telecom Division. He told me someone in Bombay Andheri East has lodged a complaint against a number registered through my Aadhaar for illegal advertising and harassing texts. Apparently, the @MumbaiPolice have sent them the blocking request and so TRAI would have to block all the numbers associated with the owner.
He gave me the details of the FIR etc and told me he’s forwarding the call to the Andheri East police station. He asked me to ask the police to send them a “clarification letter” that my original number is mine and I am not associated with the case to avoid the block. “There are a lot of identity theft going on in India” he said.
That led me to the second guy who told me he’s the police SI in Mumbai Police. He took some details and said my statement would have to be recorded since I can’t be physically present in Bombay.
Then I received a video call from a third guy (+91 90324 07612). He was in a police uniform and spoke good English (first hint of doubt, no Marathi accent)!
Called his Head Constable in English and passed an order “to investigate” my case. I played along.
The fourth guy, the HC, then was recording my “statement” and asked for my Aadhaar number which I cited wrongly. I wanted to see what they do with it. The guy was talking on the walkie-talkie (some good production). Apparently, I was involved in a “65-crore money laundering case”. This got too funny there and honestly, cringe. “Kya aap kuch chhupa rahe ho hum se?” he asked
I told him Dawood is my chacha. “Who Dawood?” he wondered. “Dawood Ibrahim. He’s my chacha (uncle)”. I told them to piss off and that was it.
But. The point is that the scammers are now a lot more sophisticated in their tactics. I don’t see a reason why my parents, older generation won’t fall for this. I bought the entire skit for 30 mins. Urge @MumbaiPolice to take note of this as scammers are impersonating them. @Cyberdost”
This is really very cunning on the part of the scamsters and we need to be very cautious if we want to save ourselves from becoming a victim to such frauds.
Beware!
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