Overview
- Navi Mumbai cyber police registered an FIR after a 71-year-old Vashi businessman lost ₹1.6 crore through WhatsApp groups pushing a fake ‘NB Trusted Partner’ app that displayed fabricated profits and blocked withdrawals.
- Thane police opened a case as a 78-year-old man transferred ₹1.06 crore across 21 transactions after being moved between WhatsApp investment groups that promised high returns.
- Hyderabad’s cybercrime wing issued a public advisory describing manipulated trading dashboards, repeated ‘fees’ at withdrawal, and urged SEBI verification, use of helpline 1930 and the national portal for rapid reporting.
- Authorities reported coercive ‘digital arrest’ extortions: Nagpur police arrested three suspects from Gujarat over a ₹1.51 crore case, while fresh complaints in Jabalpur and Bengaluru detailed losses up to ₹80.5 lakh to callers posing as officials.
- Delhi Police said a cross‑border syndicate laundered a ₹33 lakh investment-fraud haul through shell firms and USDT to a Chinese‑linked entity, announcing a key arrest on December 6 after an earlier arrest on November 19; Andhra Pradesh police separately nabbed a SIM‑swap suspect and recovered ₹2.6 lakh.