Why are people unable to disconnect calls?
A retired bank employee in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh has been defrauded of Rs 1.73 crore. The thugs kept the bank employee under wallet PLATFORM' target='_blank' title='digital-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>digital arrest for about 4 days. Now the question arises that how do people get digitally arrested and why are they unable to disconnect the phone of the thugs. Let us tell you the reason behind this in this article.
What is wallet PLATFORM' target='_blank' title='digital-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>digital arrest?
First understand what is wallet PLATFORM' target='_blank' title='digital-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>digital arrest. Actually, this is a new type of fraud, in which the victim is contacted through video call and he is threatened or lured and asked to sit in front of the camera for hours or days. A simple person falls into such things and gets digitally arrested. During this, the thugs extract many types of personal information from the person and through this they empty their bank account.
Why are they unable to disconnect the phone?
Now the question arises that when the thugs are committing fraud with the victim, why does the person not disconnect their phone. Apart from this, the question also arises that how can a person remain digitally arrested for several days. Actually, the trap of the thugs is such that the person gets scared. Understand it like this that when the thugs call a person, they tell that person that I am speaking from such and such police station or income tax department and a fraud is going on in your name.
After this the thug tells them that we are video calling you and you will sit in front of our officers until our team comes and interrogates you. The thugs threaten the victim that if you disconnect the phone, it will be considered a violation of the law and you will be arrested for this.
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