Overview
- Delhi Police arrested 19-year-old Manish Verma in a QR code tampering case, seizing over 100 edited and original codes and tracing ₹1.4 lakh diverted through AI-altered merchant QR images.
- Mumbai’s South Cyber Cell reported an 85-year-old lost ₹9 crore in a ‘digital arrest’ extortion; officers arrested Sangram Baliram Babar linked to a company account that received about ₹3 crore, with multiple related complaints flagged.
- In a separate probe, Delhi Police detained four suspects tied to a pan-India investment scam, tracing ₹7.16 crore across more than 300 NCRP-linked complaints routed through first-layer mule accounts in Pune and Hyderabad.
- Cyberabad police registered a case after a 35-year-old Hyderabad IT worker allegedly lost ₹1.04 crore to a bitcoin investment fraud initiated via a matrimonial profile before dying by suicide.
- Investigators across states reported seizures of phones, edited QR images, phishing URLs and suspicious APKs, while cyber teams and bank staff intervened in some cases to halt further transfers, including a ₹60 lakh prevention in Neemuch.