Cyber crook posing as Canadian cop dupes ex-PAU employee of Rs 4L

Cyber criminals are devising new strategies every day to take away the hard-earned money of residents. In a latest case registered by the Ludhiana rural police, a man posing as a police officer from Canada duped a retired senior lab assistant of Punjab Agricultural University of Rs 4 lakh. He told the complainant over the phone to send money, else his son would be imprisoned for life in jail for causing a road accident and killing a man.

The complainant, Bhupinder Singh, a resident of Chowkiman village in Jagraon, told

the police that his son Rajinder Singh stays in Canada. On October 18,

he received a call from some unknown number and the caller posed himself as a police officer from Canada.

“The caller told me that my son had caused a road accident in Canada in which a man has died, now, my son has to undergo life imprisonment. The suspect also told me that if I want to save my son, I have to send Rs 4 lakh in a Federal Bank account number. Later, when I talked to my son, I was shocked to know that

he did not met with any accident, rather some unidentified miscreant has committed a fraud with me”, he said.

Investigating officer ASI Sherwinder Singh said after registering a case under various sections of the BNS, further investigation was launched.

Earlier also, cases of fraud committed with similar same modus operandi have come to the fore. The Punjab Police have been issuing advisory to make the people aware about prevalent cyber frauds, still people are falling prey to such frauds.