Overview
- Delhi Police arrested three suspects in Jaipur linked to a fake hotel-review scam that converted victims’ money into Tether cryptocurrency and routed it to handlers in China.
- Punjab Police dismantled an illegal call centre in Mohali, seizing equipment and charging eight people over a racket that duped the public of nearly ₹50 crore with bogus crypto-purchase alerts.
- Law enforcement in Gurugram and Delhi apprehended suppliers of pre-activated SIM cards and synthetic bank accounts used by sextortion and investment fraud rings to target victims.
- Across multiple states, cybercriminals coerced individuals—including elderly citizens in Mumbai and a retired IAF officer in Greater Noida—into ‘digital arrests,’ resulting in losses from lakhs to over ₹2 crore.
- Agencies are tracing payment trails through gift cards, e-vouchers and UPI transfers as investigations widen and authorities prepare for further arrests and fund recovery efforts.