A 35-year-old woman from Mumbai has been booked for allegedly extorting nearly Rs 1.4 crore from a Thane resident using his personal photos and videos, police said on Saturday.
As reported by PTI, the complainant submitted to the Kasarvadavali police station asserted that the 40-year-old man said he was blackmailed between June 2023 and May this year.
As per the FIR registered, the man said that the woman had his private photos and videos in her possession. She allegedly threatened to implicate him in false cases and leak the visuals, an official said.
Complaint alleges that he paid Rs 1,39,81,893 over three years as extortion money
The complainant claimed he paid Rs 1,39,81,893 to the woman, a resident of Andheri West in Mumbai, over three years, the official said.
When the man, a resident of Hiranandani Park in the Patlipada area, stopped fulfilling the woman's demands, a male person allegedly called his wife and issued death threats to her and their family members, the official said.
Police officials further said that a case has been registered against the woman, and a probe is underway.
Mumbai bank official loses Rs 4.27 lakh in cyber fraud after fake RTO APK
Mumbai Police on Wednesday launched an investigation into a suspected cyber fraud case in which a nationalised bank’s senior official allegedly lost Rs 4.27 lakh through unauthorised credit card transactions.
As per IANS, investigators suspect that the fraud may have started after the victim’s personal secretary connected his mobile phone to the free public Wi-Fi network at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) in Mumbai.
According to police, cybercriminals may have gained access to the personal secretary’s mobile phone and later used the compromised device to spread a malicious Android application package (APK) file disguised as a Regional Transport Office (RTO) traffic challan.
The fake application was reportedly sent to several people in the phone’s contact list, including senior bank officials.
FIR registered against the accused
The MRA Marg police have registered a First Information Report (FIR) and are investigating whether the mobile device was infected through the public Wi-Fi network, a fake hotspot imitating the genuine network, or through another method used by cybercriminals.
(With inputs from PTI)
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