The Ernakulam Rural cyber police have arrested two persons in a case suspected to involve a huge racket that reportedly cheated a 63-year-old resident of Aluva of ₹1.15 crore by threatening him of arrest warrants against him by the Supreme Court.
The arrested were identified as Ashwin, 25, and Athul, 33, of Kozhikode. The fraud started unfolding with the victim receiving a text message that his SIM card would be deactivated in four hours. The fraudsters reportedly convinced him that the SIM card had been taken using his Aadhaar credentials and that the Mumbai police had registered a case against him after his number was found involved in an online fraud.
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