The scammer had a show photograph of a person in police uniform.
Agra:
Scams over the phone have led to a number of folks struggling monetary losses, however this can be the primary occasion by which one such tried fraud allegedly price a lady her life.
On Monday, Malti Verma, 58, a trainer in a authorities college in Agra, acquired a WhatsApp name from a person whose show photograph was that of a police official. The man instructed the trainer that her college-going daughter had been caught in a intercourse racket.
Ms Verma’s son, Dipanshu, mentioned the decision got here round midday and the person requested her to deposit Rs 1 lakh in a specific account to make sure that her daughter got here again dwelling secure and no case was filed.
The man additionally allegedly instructed Ms Verma that he was calling her to make sure that the household didn’t need to undergo the trauma of getting their daughter implicated in a intercourse racket-related case.
“My mom taught in a authorities women junior highschool in Agra’s Achnera. After she obtained the decision from the person, she panicked and known as me, and I requested her for the quantity from which she had acquired the decision. When I checked the quantity, I discovered that it had a +92 prefix and I instructed her it was a rip-off. She was nonetheless very anxious and began feeling unwell,” mentioned Dipanshu.
“I reassured her and in addition instructed her that I had spoken to my sister, who was in school and was superb. My mom’s well being stored deteriorating, nonetheless, and when she got here again from college, she mentioned she was feeling some ache. We gave her one thing to drink however issues obtained worse and he or she died,” he added.
Additional Commissioner of Police Mayank Tiwari mentioned the household filed a grievance on Thursday.
“The household has complained that Ms Verma died of a coronary heart assault. The trigger for this, her husband has mentioned, was that she had acquired a name stating that her daughter had been caught in a intercourse racket and the caller had demanded Rs 1 lakh from her. She obtained very anxious due to this and died quarter-hour after she reached dwelling. She was cremated on Tuesday and we’ve got acquired the grievance at present. We are investigating the quantity from which the decision got here and can take motion,” Mr Tiwari mentioned.
(With inputs from Naseem Ahmad)