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Hyderabad Police Arrest Account Supplier and Bank Employee as ‘Digital Arrest’ and Investment Scams Target Seniors

Police link rising losses to mule accounts, fake dashboards, coerced transfers, urging reports to 1930.

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Claiming to be CBI officers, the frauds allegedly put him under digital arrest on the pretext of an investigation, and made him transfer his savings to their suggested bank accounts, said police. (Representational image)
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She said in her statement that the fraudsters told her that bank accounts in her name in Mumbai were being used to fund terrorists involved in the Pahalgam attack.

Overview

  • Hyderabad cyber crime officers arrested Bobbari Srinivasa Rao from Visakhapatnam for a ₹43 lakh IPO allotment fraud that used a fake Axis-linked WhatsApp profile and bogus profit dashboards, seizing phones, SIMs, passbooks, debit cards and cheque books.
  • In a separate case, Hyderabad police arrested Bengaluru bank employee Prathap Kesari Pradhan, alleged to have opened and supplied accounts to a nationwide ‘digital arrest’ racket and linked to seven cases, after a Hyderabad woman lost over ₹10 lakh.
  • Noida police registered cases after a 76-year-old woman was kept under ‘digital arrest’ and duped of about ₹43.7–44 lakh through threats tied to the Pahalgam attack, while a 92-year-old retired professor reported losing ₹1.02 crore during a five-day coercive confinement.
  • Hyderabad reported two APK-based thefts totaling ₹6.01 lakh after victims received malicious ‘RTO/RTA challan’ files on WhatsApp, prompting advisories to avoid unknown APKs, links and OTP sharing and to report via cybercrime.gov.in or 1930.
  • The Telangana Cyber Security Bureau said a 78-year-old Nizamabad victim was kept on calls for nearly 50 hours before a friend’s alert to 1930 helped hold ₹20 lakh, as Gurugram police also detained two suspects accused of creating mule accounts for cyber gangs.