Overview
- Six suspects were arrested in coordinated operations across Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala and Mumbai, with accounts tied to roughly Rs 100 crore flagged in at least 35 cases.
- Investigators say one arrestee’s accounts are linked to Mumbai’s Rs 58 crore case, which Maharashtra Cyber has traced to networks connected to Hong Kong, China and Indonesia.
- A 60-year-old Mumbai businessman was coerced on a continuous video call and transferred Rs 53 lakh before alerting the 1930 cyber helpline and filing an FIR with Central Region Cyber Police.
- A 62-year-old Pune retiree lost Rs 99 lakh after receiving a forged arrest warrant carrying Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s fake signature from scammers posing as a ‘Data Protection Agency.’
- Police detail tactics including fake TRAI and Delhi Police calls, staged online hearings, forged ED and Supreme Court documents, and orders to transfer funds to so-called government-secured accounts.