A conman pretended to be a FedEx executive

Matthew informed the MD that the package was dispatched from a man named Shang Lin from Thailand

The package was said to consist of 2.3kg of clothes, credit card and bank-related documents, 140 grams of MDMA, a pair of shoes, two pen drives, and a laptop

On November 8th, a Managing Director (MD) of a Mumbai-based company arrived in Bengaluru to attend a meeting on behalf of his company. It is here that he received a call that informed him that a consignment from Thailand had been dispatched to him. 

He was informed that the consignment consisted of synthetic drugs and expired passports among other items. The caller pretended to be a FedEx executive. He informed him that due to some unforeseen circumstances he was not in a position to complete the delivery. 

The call was then diverted on an individual named Felix Matthew. Matthew informed the MD that the package was dispatched from a man named Shang Lin from Thailand. The package was said to consist of 2.3kg of clothes, credit card and bank-related documents, 140 grams of MDMA, a pair of shoes, two pen drives, and a laptop. The MD was told that FedEx would be registering a complaint with the Mumbai police. 

The call was then forwarded to a person claiming to represent the Mumbai police. The MD was swayed by the logo of Mumbai police and officers in the background. An accusation of money laundering was made on the MD and he was blackmailed by the officers. They asked him to transfer money to their account for the purposes of verification which he was promised would be returned. He obliged by paying Rs 95 lakh through 2 different accounts and the call was promptly disconnected. It was when the logo disappeared that the MD realised he was conned.