Overview
- The Bengaluru victim, 57, was kept under constant Skype surveillance from September 2024 to March 2025 and made 187 transfers totaling ₹31.83 crore after threats from impostors posing as CBI officers and courier staff.
- An FIR filed at the Bengaluru East Cyber Crime Police Station has triggered an active investigation, and Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara vowed to trace the culprits in what he called the state’s largest online fraud case.
- In Mumbai, an 80-year-old woman transferred ₹1.08 crore after callers impersonated TRAI staff and DGP Rashmi Shukla, with the Central Cyber police registering a case under the Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita and the IT Act.
- In Kanpur, scammers exploited panic over the recent Delhi blast to extort ₹6.66 lakh from a woman by posing as ATS and NIA officers, and the city’s cyber cell is tracing the bank accounts used in the fraud.
- Investigators say the network relies on forged FIU or clearance letters, video monitoring, and demands for ‘surety’ or ‘tax’ via NEFT/RTGS, with authorities urging immediate reporting of coercive calls from purported officials.