India, March 17 -- An 82-year-old retired army officer lost Rs.12.05 lakh to cyber fraudsters who posed as courier service executives and tricked him into downloading a malicious APK file to hack his phone, police said.

Col Rajbir Singh Duggal (retired), a resident of Victoria Enclave in Sector 50-C, stated in his complaint to the cyber crime police station in Sector 17 that he searched for a courier company's contact number online as he had to send a parcel to Pune. Spotting a number on Google, he dialed it and spoke to someone who asked him to pay Rs.10 for booking a parcel pickup.

Police said the complainant initially attempted to make the payment through his State Bank of India's (SBI) account but the transaction failed. He later ma...