Tag: Cyber Fraud

Cyberabad police recover ₹1 crore lost in ‘boss impersonation’ scam

August 19, 2026 admin

Cyberabad Cyber Crime police have secured and restored ₹1 crore allegedly lost by a saree retail outlet in a boss impersonation scam, with a 37-year-old man arrested in connection with the fraud. The accused, Deepak Kumar, a water-plant business operator from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, allegedly used a forged WhatsApp profile to impersonate the proprietor of…

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Seven arrested for involvement in trading and ‘digital arrest’ frauds in Cyberabad

June 5, 2026 admin

The cybercrime wing of Cyberabad police arrested seven persons across multiple States in connection with seven cases detected between May 27 and June 2, officials said on Friday. Of the seven cases detected during the week, three were linked to trading frauds, two to ‘digital arrest’ scams, and two were categorised under operation crackdowns on…

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Navi Mumbai Resident Conned Of Rs 15 Crore, Man With ‘Cambodia Links’ Arrested

January 17, 2025 admin

Thane: Police have arrested a 30-year-old man from Khagaria town in Bihar for cheating a Navi Mumbai resident to the tune of more than Rs 14.88 crore in a share trading cyber fraud, an official said on Friday. The Navi Mumbai police’s Cyber Cell tracked down and nabbed the accused, identified as Sujitkumar Madankumar Singh,…

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WhatsApp Top Among Social Media Platforms Misused By Cyber Criminals: MHA

January 2, 2025 admin

New Delhi: Social media platform WhatsApp followed by Telegram and Instagram remains one of the favourite hunting grounds for online scamsters, as per the latest report from the Union Home Ministry. In the first three months of year 2024, total 43,797 complaints regarding cyber frauds through WhatsApp were received followed by 22,680 complaints against Telegram…

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Bank Manager Arrested For Data Theft, Defrauding Company Of Rs 12.51 Crore

December 29, 2024 admin

Bengaluru: Four people, including the manager of a private bank, were arrested for allegedly siphoning off Rs 12.51 crore by stealing sensitive data from a company, police said on Saturday. The matter came to light after the director of Dream Plug Pay Tech Solutions Private Limited (CRED) approached the police in November, alleging the siphoning…

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Centre Introduces New System To Identify, Block International Spoof Calls

October 4, 2024 admin

Experts say scamsters take advantage of fear psychosis within people. New Delhi: Centre has introduced a new system to identify and block incoming international spoofed calls before they can reach Indian telecom subscribers. This comes amid a spate of incidents where users were “digitally arrested”, and threatened with mobile disconnection, cybercriminals even impersonation of government…

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Tamil Nadu Professor Placed Under Digital Arrest, Duped of Rs 10 Lakh

September 21, 2024 admin

This incident is just one example of a growing trend of online scams. Chennai: Jayanthi, a professor and former journalist from Tamil Nadu, has fallen victim to a sophisticated online scam, losing a significant portion of her life savings. The scammers, posing as police officers during a video call, accused her of money laundering and…

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Man Outsmarts Phishing Scammer In Viral Phone Call On X

August 8, 2024 admin

In the video, the caller asks the man to upload his credentials to “receive” money (representational). New Delhi: “No one can trace this number. It is fake…,” a scammer confesses, rattled after his mark turns the tables on him, in a video that has gone viral on X. The video, posted on Tuesday, was retweeted…

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Man Loses Rs 50,000 After Message From Person Posing As Senior Official

August 6, 2024 admin

Police said the message was sent from an India number but being operated from Sri Lanka. Budaun (UP): A tehsildar was duped of Rs 50,000 when he got a message from a person posing as the district magistrate asking him to send the amount to a bank account on priority, officials said here on Tuesday….

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Gurugram Techie Offers Scammer To Redesign His Website. What Happened Next

July 31, 2024 admin

Mr Gaurav Sharan’s offer to redesign the fake website intrigued the scammer (representational). New Delhi: A Gurugram-based software engineer turned the tables on a cyber scammer who had attempted to trick him into updating his PAN details through a fraudulent link on behalf of the HDFC bank. Instead of falling victim to the scam, Mr…

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