Bengaluru techie loses Rs 32 crore in digital

Bengaluru: A 57-year-old Bengaluru woman was conned out of a staggering Rs 31.83 crore over six months — the largest amount lost by a single victim in Karnataka in the infamous 'digital arrest' scam, police said.

The victim, a resident of Indiranagar and a \"very senior-level IT professional\", was placed under constant surveillance by cybercriminals for over six months before they abruptly cut contact, a senior cybercrime investigator told DH.

On September 15, 2024, she received a call from someone claiming to be from DHL, a courier service. She was told a package in her name — containing three credit cards, four passports and prohibited MDMA drugs — had arrived at the DHL centre in Andheri, Mumbai.

When she said she lived in Bengaluru and had no connection to the courier, the caller c