Overview
- Delhi Police arrested 19-year-old Manish Verma in Jaipur for tampering merchant QR codes to reroute payments, seizing over 100 edited codes and tracing Rs 1.4 lakh diverted from a Chandni Chowk purchase reported on December 13.
- Mumbai’s South Cyber police said an 85-year-old under a so‑called ‘digital arrest’ transferred Rs 9 crore before a bank manager stopped a further Rs 3 crore, with suspect Sangram Babar held and funds traced to a company account linked to other cases.
- Delhi Police also detained four suspects in a pan‑India investment‑app racket tied to transactions worth about Rs 7.16 crore across more than 300 NCRP complaints, identifying first‑layer mule accounts operated from Pune and Hyderabad and recovering devices and banking records.
- Fresh FIRs underscore the spread of investment lures: Pune police are probing a Rs 1.32 crore Tether (USDT) fake‑app case targeting a 62‑year‑old, while Palwal police recorded a Rs 1.35 crore loss after a businessman was steered to a phishing app that showed fabricated dollar profits.
- The human toll is rising, with Cyberabad police investigating a tech worker’s death by suicide after a reported Rs 1.04 crore bitcoin fraud, as agencies urge immediate reporting to the 1930 helpline to improve fund freezing and recovery.