Overview
- Police have arrested several people in late October and seized mobile phones, domain and payment records, Excel contact databases and thousands of suspect SIMs as part of coordinated probes into online recruitment, scholarship and digital‑arrest scams.
- Investigators say a fake Russian Embassy recruitment site, embassytest.com, charged jobseekers small registration fees and used UK‑based payment on‑ramps such as Stripe and PayPal to collect about 50 suspicious transactions tied to at least 17 complainants.
- Aman Kumar was arrested on October 26 when he visited his hometown and police recovered two phones, a domain‑management account and correspondence that link him and another accused to the embassy site operation.
- Separate Delhi cases uncovered large supply chains that harvested Aadhaar and biometric data at sham health camps to activate more than 3,000 SIMs and sell e‑SIM QR codes, and teams also found mobile ‘call‑centre’ SUVs and mule account kits used to move money.
- Authorities report money was rapidly layered through mule bank accounts, converted into USDT and routed via international payment infrastructure, and investigators are tracing beneficiaries, foreign links and the full scale to protect victims and freeze proceeds.