A retired banker lost his entire life savings to a group of digital fraudsters, spending over a month under constant intimidation before his ordeal ended.

Seventy-eight-year-old Naresh Malhotra was confined to his home under what he described as a “digital arrest,” and was allowed to go out only to visit banks and transfer funds to the scammers, who posed as officers from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), news agency PTI reported. By the time the scam ended, Malhotra had lost Rs 23 crore.