Mumbai: A cyber fraud posing as Mumbai police officer cheated Bollywood actor Anjali Patil of ₹ 5.79 lakh, NDTV reported.
It all began last week when Patil received a call from a man named Deepak Sharma introducing himself an employee of FedEx Courier Company.
Anjali Patil, known for her roles in films like Finding Fanny (2014), Newton (2017), and Kaun Pravin Tambe? (2022), was getting enmeshed in the trap.
Sharma told the actor that customs authorities intercepted a parcel, registered in her name and bound for Taiwan, discovering drugs in it.
The man asked her to contact Mumbai cyber police to stop any misuse of her Aadhaar card that was found in the parcel.
Following this, an individual introducing himself as Banerjee from Mumbai cyber police told her over Skype call that her Aadhaar card was linked to three bank accounts involving in a money laundering case.
Banerjee demanded a processing fee of ₹ 96,525 to verify her innocence.
Subsequently, the man put more pressure on her saying that bank officials were involved in the money laundering scheme.
Eventually, the actor was forced into transferring ₹ 4,83,291 to a Punjab National Bank account in order to avoid potential legal issues.
The actor discovered she was a victim of a cyber-scam days later when she revealed the incident to her landlord.
The DN Nagar Police started a probe into the incident after she lodged a complaint.