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The items recovered from the accused. Ahmedabad: A 90-year-old man in Gujarat’s Surat lost his entire life savings of over Rs 1 crore to fraudsters, who posed as CBI officers and placed him under ‘digital arrest’ for 15 days, claiming that drugs were found in a parcel that was couriered in his name from Mumbai…
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The accused returned the Rs 15 lakh transferred by the woman, to gain her trust. (Representational) Mumbai: A 77-year-old woman from Mumbai was kept under “digital arrest” for a month by cyber fraudsters who posed as law enforcement officials and made her transfer Rs 3.8 crore, claiming her Aadhaar card was used in a money…
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Police officials said the fraudsters appeared to have been keeping tabs on the builder. Ahmedabad: A builder in Ahmedabad lost Rs 1 crore after he fell prey to a ‘digital arrest’ scam in which some people posing to be from the police and the Narcotics Control Bureau told him that 550 grams of a drug…
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Transactions worth Rs 13 lakh were blocked due to police intervention. (Representational) Aligarh: A retired Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) professor was allegedly duped of more than Rs 75 lakhs by fraudsters posing as Enforcement Directorate (ED) and putting her under ‘digital arrest’ for 10 days, police said on Sunday. An FIR was lodged on Friday…
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The agency urged people to report such crimes at central helpline number 1930. (Representational) New Delhi: The CBI, police, customs, Enforcement Directorate or judges do not arrest people through video calls, the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) said in a public advisory issued in view of the rising cases of ‘digital arrest’ crimes in…
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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