Archive · 21 May 2025
Police Hunt Con Men Impersonating Officers, Swindling Victims
Some bad guys pretended to be police officers and tricked people into giving them money.
In one case, they told a woman she was in trouble for money laundering and got her to transfer about $5,000 to a bank account.
In another case, two men pretended to be cops and robbed a fish delivery driver of about $6,000.
The fake officers stopped the driver, claimed he was drunk, and stole the money while distracting him.
The police are looking at security footage to find the criminals but haven't caught them yet.
They are investigating these cases and trying to catch the people responsible.
Police are investigating two separate cases of con men impersonating officers.
Victims were defrauded of approximately Rs 9.5 lakh collectively.
In one case, a woman was tricked into transferring Rs 4.5 lakh.
In another incident, a fish delivery driver was robbed of Rs 5 lakh.
Police are reviewing CCTV footage but have not made any arrests yet.
- Who
- Con men impersonating police officers and the victims.
- What
- Con men swindled victims out of approximately Rs 9.5 lakh by impersonating police officers.
- When
- First incident reported in April, second on May 8
- Where
- Salcete, Carmona, and Sirlim, India
- Why
- The motivation appears to be financial gain through deception and theft.
- Total Amount Stolen
- Rs 9.5 lakh
- Incident 1 Victim
- Filomena D’Costa Furtado
- Incident 1 Amount
- Rs 4.5 lakh
- Incident 2 Victim
- Shridhar Moger
- Incident 2 Amount
- Rs 5 lakh
- Status
- Culprits still at large