Overview

• Kollam police opened a case after a 79-year-old lost ₹3.72 crore in 17 transfers, traced the recipient accounts, and moved to freeze funds.
• In Bhopal, a retired BHEL supervisor was coerced into sending ₹68.3 lakh while kept under “digital arrest,” with probes finding money routed through 10 bank accounts and five SIMs, including three virtual numbers.
• Investigators in the Bhopal case sought data from Meta and requested CAF and CDR details from telecoms to track virtual and out-of-state numbers.
• Mumbai’s cyber police registered an FIR after a Byculla resident sent ₹27.20 lakh following WhatsApp video calls featuring forged documents and a senior IPS officer’s identity misused.
• Hyderabad police confirmed a 75-year-old transferred ₹21.01 lakh under threats, as Lucknow officers separately arrested six suspects, seizing ₹26 lakh and digital currency worth ₹1.30 crore linked to mule-account frauds.