Scammers pose as courier firm employees to dupe two women in Bengaluru, extort Rs 2.4 lakh

In separate instances, scammers posing as courier firm executives have extorted a total of Rs 2.4 lakh from two women in Bengaluru after threatening them that their delivery boxes contained illicit items and that they would inform the police, officials said.

In the first case, a 29-year-old private firm employee fell trap to a fraudster who duped her of Rs 1.4 lakh, the police said. “The woman received a call on November 25, 2022, from a man posing as a courier company employee who informed her she had a parcel containing a large amount of cash in her name. The caller threatened to report her to the Enforcement Directorate for money laundering, and the woman agreed to pay him out of fear,” an officer said. After paying in multiple installments, she reported the matter to the police.