Overview
- Thane police registered a case after a 57-year-old Ulhasnagar man lost Rs1.14 crore through a WhatsApp-linked trading app that later showed Rs11.29 crore in fictitious gains and demanded Rs2.26 crore in fees when he tried to withdraw, booking offences under IT Act sections 66C and 66D.
- A 70-year-old Medchal retiree transferred Rs93.07 lakh across 11 transactions to 10 bank accounts after joining a WhatsApp group led by purported analysts, later learning the trading app and SEBI documents were forged, Cyberabad cybercrime police said.
- Rachakonda cybercrime police opened an investigation after a Hyderabad tech worker, recruited via a YouTube video into a group called Capitals Kings Club, lost Rs5.45 lakh on the MH-AlphaTerminal (India-UK Fast Trading) app and was told to pay a processing fee before withdrawals.
- The Telangana Cyber Security Bureau and Nizamabad police detained a juvenile allegedly linked to about 100 cyber frauds nationwide, seized a phone with numerous spoofed profiles, and lodged the suspect in a juvenile home as inquiries continue.
- Maharashtra’s nodal cyber police reported a separate ‘digital arrest’ case in which a Mumbai couple lost about Rs58 crore to callers posing as federal officers, with three arrests made and money traced through at least 18 bank accounts.