Overview
- Mumbai Cyber Police arrested six people on Thursday in a Dahisar case after a 68-year-old man was kept under “digital arrest” and forced to transfer about Rs 1.12 crore, and investigators seized phones, laptops and bank records.
- Separate Mumbai probes recorded other victims who transferred tens of lakhs, including a 72-year-old in Malad who lost Rs 89.80 lakh and a 52-year-old who lost Rs 11.5 lakh after callers impersonated senior officers and showed forged legal documents.
- Crime Branch teams uncovered an OTP‑farming ring that supplied fake WhatsApp accounts to overseas fraudsters, arresting three people and seizing 100 handsets and 669 SIM cards to disrupt account‑creation and authentication fraud.
- State units in Gujarat and Valsad detained suspects who routed proceeds through company and relatives’ bank accounts, converted funds into USDT on crypto apps, and linked accounts to dozens of complaints across multiple states.
- Police warn citizens not to accept video calls from strangers, never share OTPs or banking details, and to report incidents to the 1930 cybercrime helpline or the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal as wider interstate and international probes continue.