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Police Step Up Fight Against 'Digital Arrest' Scams With Arrests and Senior Outreach Across India

Mumbai reports 142 cases this year, totaling Rs 114 crore in losses.

Manipulated by cybercriminals posing as law enforcement, the Bengaluru woman's ordeal began with a fraudulent call about a suspicious parcel.
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In a separate incident of cybercrime, a 72-year-old man lost more than ₹10.6 lakh after cyber criminals hacked into his mobile phone and stole the money. (Representational image)
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Overview

  • Delhi Crime Branch arrested six suspects in Lucknow after a 71-year-old was duped of Rs 49 lakh through daylong virtual confinement and layered mule accounts.
  • Mumbai Cyber Cell launched door-to-door visits to 627 seniors in Zone 1 with multilingual pamphlets to explain the fraud and key prevention steps.
  • Bengaluru police registered a complaint from a 57-year-old who alleges losses of Rs 31.83 crore over six months to callers posing as CBI officers, with an investigation underway.
  • Mangaluru CEN Police arrested two men and traced more than 300 bank accounts and over 250 SIM cards used for cyberfraud, seizing phones and banking materials.
  • Tallital police in Nainital arrested four who allegedly hacked phones via APK links and routed money to mule accounts, with Rs 3.37 crore in suspicious transactions detected.