An 83-year-old Pune resident died of heart attack a month after being duped of Rs 1.2 crore in a "digital arrest" scam, where fraudsters posing as police and CBI personnel targeted him and his wife, officials said on Thursday.

The fraudsters threatened the man, a retired government official, claiming his name had surfaced in a money-laundering case involving a prominent person, they said.

"The man's wife filed a complaint on Tuesday, a week after he died of heart attack," a Cyber Police Station official said.

'Digital arrest' is a fraud aimed at extorting money from victims using fear, deceit and intimidation. Fraudsters impersonate law-enforcement officials, using threats of arrest and freezing of bank accounts, among others, to force the victims into paying money as “fine” or sort of

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