Elderly man duped: 73-year-old loses Rs 16 lakh in SIM upgrade scam in Delhi | News from Delhi

NEW DELHI: A 73-year-old man was duped by fraudsters of Rs 16 lakh on the pretext of SIM upgrade in Dwarka.
The victim was identified as Ramvir Singh Chaudhary. It all started with a silent threat – an ignored call about a mobile SIM upgrade. Little did Ramvir know that this was the first step in a meticulously planned heist.
“I received a call from an unknown number regarding upgrading my mobile SIM from 4G to 5G but I did not answer,” the complainant said.
A few days later, his world turned upside down. In a span of three days, a staggering Rs 16,64,300 disappeared from his bank accounts – a lifetime’s worth of savings. Panic shot through him as he realized he had been duped by an unknown fraudster.
Ramvir approached the cyber police station in Dwarka. He filed a complaint detailing the ignored call, the unauthorized deductions and the amount stolen from his three bank accounts. A case has been registered under a cheating section.
It was not the first time a senior citizen was targeted. In July, Krishna Dasgupta, a 72-year-old resident of South Delhi’s CR Park, fell victim to an elaborate fraud. The crooks used a tactic known as “digital arrest” to steal R83 from her bank accounts.
Last year, fraudsters posing as Mumbai Police detectives duped a 72-year-old man into claiming he was involved in the tiger skin trade in Malaysia. In May last year, another elderly person was duped.
He claimed to have received a WhatsApp video call from a random number in which a girl is undressing. He immediately logged off, but soon received calls from unknown people claiming to be from cyber crime division.
They threatened to make a screenshot of the call go viral and arrest him if he didn’t pay a huge amount. Fearing consequences, the complainant transferred Rs 47,076 to the fraudster’s bank account, but later informed the police.