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The crime branch has arrested a fraudster for duping the wife of an army colonel in Colaba of Rs 80,000 by posing as a senior executive of a bank.
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Arrested accused identified as Samir Kasam Shaikh, a Mira Road resident, obtained the victim&rsquo;s bank details by telling her about some new RBI guidelines, later making unauthorised transactions. The police believe that the fraud was the handiwork of a professional gang and more arrests are likely to follow.
According to the police, the complainant mentioned that in November last year, when she was going through her husband&rsquo;s email, she came across a message from her bank. She told the police that in the mail, a bank executive had sought her account details, as it needed to be updated as per the RBI guidelines. The mail even had a link.
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She did as asked. A day later, she got a call from a bank representative to confirm the details. Hours after that, she got a message that Rs 79,500 had been deducted from her account.
During preliminary probe it was revealed that the beneficiary bank account belongs to a person Pandya in Palanpur, Gujarat, a source said.

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