New Delhi: After dumping and cheating common man, cyber thugs are now targeting Bollywood celebrities, their latest victim is an Indian actress Anjali Patil who is duped of over 6 lakh rupees by a man who apparently posed as a Police officer. The actress has worked in Indian, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu films and also won a Marathi Filmfare award. The incident took place last week when she received a call from the FedEx Courier company.
How the actress was trapped
Anjali lives in Mumbai’s Andheri, she received a call from a man last week who told her that he is calling from a courier company and his name is Deepak Sharma. They have a parcel on her name, the parcel has drugs inside it and its going to Taiwan. They also have Anjali’s Aadhar card. The man told him that she should go to Mumbai Cyber cell and currently the parcel is under the custody of the Mumbai customs department. Anjali again received a call from a man who told her he is calling from the Mumbai cyber cell and his name is Banerjee. He also told her that they have her Aadhar card which is linked to three bank accounts and these bank accounts are involved with a Money laundering case. The man asked her to deposit 96000 for the verification process.
The actress realized she had fallen prey to a scam
The man further told her that some officials of the bank are also involved in the Money Laundering case and she has to deposit 4,83,291 to close the case. Anjali had then deposited the money in her Punjab National Bank account to get rid of any police case. It was a few days later she realized that she had fallen prey to a scam.
Cops registers case and launches probe
The actress has quickly registered her complaint in the Police station and the cops have launched an enquiry into the incident.
