mumbai hours after a senior citizen from powai lost rs74500 in an online fraud sakinaka police swung into action and managed to retrieve the entire amount sujit goswami 62 a retired civil engineer was duped after a woman impersonating as an army officer got in touch with him via video conferencing arranged through a real estate broker after showing an interest in renting his flat at nahar sakinaka the woman tricked him into sharing details of his bank account in an appreciation letter to the police on thursday goswami compared mumbai police force with scotland yard in terms of aggressiveness to solve the problem in prime timegoswami said he came to mumbai in november 2020 to either sell his flat or rent it out i was looking for a customer when i got a call from a real estate broker soham awate on wednesday he visited my house around noon and fixed a conference call with the woman who showed an interest in taking my flat on rent she claimed she was from pune and lived with her husband and child she also shared her ids in official uniform she repeatedly called up and said she wanted to make payment for the deal goswami told toion the pretext of paying rs2 lakh security deposit and rs50000 as rent for the first month through ewallet to goswami the scamster identified as sunita kumari convinced him to share his bank details and otp by 130pm rs74500 was transferred out of my account in several transactions goswami said he immediately lodged a complaint with sakinaka police who collected information about the transactions they managed to block and reverse the transactions some of the money had been transferred to ewallets meanwhile the woman called up and asked me why i had blocked my card as she was unable to transfer the money when i told her i had lodged a police complaint she claimed she would transfer the money the next day said goswamisenior inspector balwant deshmukh said the cyber team acted swiftly and blocked the transactions and managed to recover all the money