A day after the Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by Bengaluru Police Commissioner B. Dayananda to probe the ‘FedEx courier scam’ unearthed a case and arrested a gang of 14 people operating pan India recently, a couple who are retired bank employees approached the police with a complaint that they had lost ₹10 lakh to the same scam, indicating how the racket is continuing unabated.
The victims told the police that the gang first posed as representatives of ‘FedEx’ and later, posing as “Mumbai crime branch police”, spoke to them for over three days to force them to share their bank details by threatening them with an FIR and arrest, managed to get access to their bank details and transferred money online.
The couple are among the three complainants after the arrest of the 14-member gang, a senior police officer who is part of the investigation said.
