3 minutes of readingBombayJanuary 29, 2026 07:31 pm IST
A 43-year-old woman from the city who was looking for a job and had uploaded her personal details on the internet ended up losing more than Rs 11 lakh. police suspect cyber scammers He collected her details from job portals, pretended to offer her a job and made her pay Rs 11.28 lakh on various pretexts. An FIR has been registered in the matter.
An officer said the woman Savita B, a resident of Mulund, had been looking for work for the past few months. He had registered his personal details on websites like Shine and Naukri.com.
On December 3, he received a call from an unknown mobile number. The person who identified himself as Abhinav Mishra on a job portal—in fact said that he had received his personal details from Naukri.com.
“He told me that there was a vacancy for the position of Manager at Bank of America, Citibank and Wells Fargo,” the complainant mentioned in her statement to the police. The complainant said she was interested in working for Bank of America. Mishra initially told him that he would have to pay a registration fee of Rs 5,850 and sent him a UPI ID.
Two days later, he called her again and told her that “Bank of America head” Anupam Chakraborty would conduct her “interview”. Accordingly, Mishra called him at 3 pm and connected her with Anupam Chakraborty for the interview and their ‘interview’ took place.
She later received an email from a job portal informing her that she had been selected to work as a Senior Manager at Bank of America, Bandra (East). They sent him a fake letter from Bank of America, stating that they needed his personal documents.
To “verify such documents”, they asked him to send Rs 29,950 to the UPID they sent. Later, Mishra called her several times and asked her to transfer more money to a UP ID for various reasons. He told her that they would return the said amount to me after she went to the Bank of America.
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Over a month, he ended up transferring Rs 11.28 lakh. It was when Mishra stopped answering her calls from January 22 onwards that she suspected something was wrong and realized she had been duped.
He then approached the Eastern Region Cyber Police station, where an FIR was registered on Thursday.