Overview
- Law enforcement across states arrested suspects and seized phones and cash in early October after probes uncovered large mule‑account rings used to collect scam proceeds.
- Bengaluru’s Cyber Command Unit arrested four people in a WhatsApp impersonation case that cost a private university ₹1.40 crore and recovered cash and devices as investigators traced foreign IPs.
- Surat police arrested a man they say supplied bank accounts to an international network that withdrew fraud proceeds, converted funds into USDT and transferred them to crypto wallets on instructions from an absconding accused in Dubai.
- Investigations found fraudsters used technical intrusions such as malicious ZIP files and hijacked WhatsApp Web sessions to monitor institutional communications for weeks before executing transfers.
- Authorities warn that innocent account‑holders who hand over bank details face legal risk, urge immediate reporting on the national cybercrime helpline 1930, and say more arrests and fund‑tracing operations are under way.