India, July 3 -- The Cybercrime Branch police arrested four men on Thursday for allegedly duping a 62-year-old man worth Rs.21 lakh by posing as representatives of a piped natural gas (PNG) company, police said on Friday.

Police said the victim filed an FIR at the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP), following which a case of cheating and impersonation under the BNS and the IT Act was registered at the Cybercrime Branch police station on March 9.

The complainant, a resident of Greater Noida West, alleged in the FIR that, "On March 1, I received a call from an unidentified person claiming to be a representative of IGL, who told me that my bill was due."

The caller then sent him a link and asked him to fill his details, includin...