Gurugram: Con poses as I-T officer, asks bizman to cough up money to stop raid on unit

Gurgaon | Friday | 8th February, 2019

Summary:

After an hour, Bhutani received another call and this time, he refused to pay, saying he knew that the caller was not an IT officer. The caller identified himself as inspector Ajay Kumar from the income tax department and informed him that officials were going to conduct a raid at his unit the same day. “Usually fraudsters use a dummy account (opened in the name of another person). Bhutani received two-three calls in the next few minutes and the caller tried to convince him to transfer the money immediately.“But suspecting the credentials of the caller, Bhutani discussed the matter with me and we decided not to pay,” said Kumar in his complaint to police . But we hope to nab him soon,” he said..