The Mumbai police have arrested a 43-year-old cyber fraudster for allegedly cheating a senior citizen of Rs 10 lakh by posing as his friend, who stays in the US, an official said on Wednesday. The Cyber Crime Branch cracked the more than two months old fraud case and arrested the accused, Samrat Surendrakumar Choudhary, on Tuesday evening, he said.

The incident came to light on July 5, when the senior citizen approached the Central Region Cyber Police Station with a cheating complaint, the police officer said. The 63-year-old man, who works with an NGO, had received a WhatsApp message from a mobile number which had an image of his US-based friend as display picture (DP), he said.