At least 80 people in Mumbai, mostly in the 60-80 age group, were duped of over Rs 1 crore by cyber fraudsters who tricked them into paying online claiming their electricity bills are not updated, and if they do not comply with, their power supply will be disconnected, police said.

A man was arrested in connection with the fraud, they said. Interestingly, some of the victims who fell prey to this fraud between June 7 and July 4 are doctors, hoteliers, Navy officers, college students, engineers, businessmen, retired government employees and even some maidservants, a police official said. He said the fraudsters used to send random SMSes to people claiming that their previous month's power bill was not updated and they need to contact the "electricity officer" immediately to avoid disconnecting the power supply.