‘FedEx says your parcel has drugs’: The scam that trapped comedian Ankita Shrivastav
“Hello ma’am, I’m calling from FedEx. We’ve been alerted by police that a courier you sent to Iraq contains drugs.” This is what a man on the other end of the phone told Ankita Shrivastav, a stand-up comedian based in Mumbai city, one afternoon in October 2024. What followed was one of the most harrowing…
