Overview

• Hyderabad police booked a case after a 57-year-old Himayathnagar resident lost ₹6.32 lakh to the NFM Capital Markets scam pushed via Facebook and WhatsApp, with police saying the 1930 report enabled partial recovery.
• In a separate Hyderabad case, a 63-year-old investor lost ₹43 lakh after a WhatsApp contact posing as “AXIS Security” touted IPO and QIP trades using fabricated dashboards, and an FIR was registered.
• Mumbai’s Central Region Cyber Police registered an FIR after a 50-year-old ex-banker was duped of ₹23.17 lakh by two gangs running fake apps branded as ‘anandrathi.top’ and ‘BobCap’.
• Gurugram police filed an FIR after a 50-year-old IT professional reported losing ₹73.42 lakh in a dating-app honeytrap that funneled him to a trading platform and later demanded a 25% payment to release funds.
• Investigators say the scams recruit via social media, messaging apps and dating platforms, show fake profits, block withdrawals and coerce extra fees, and they urge verification with SEBI and immediate reporting to 1930 or cybercrime.gov.in.