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NEW DELHI: Delhi Police has arrested seven people linked to a transnational cybercrime syndicate that used illegal SIM box technology to defraud citizens across India. Investigators said the accused, including a Taiwanese national and a woman, had links to Chinese, Cambodian and Pakistani scam networks. A SIM box is a device that holds multiple SIM…
HYDERABAD: After noticing TOI articles on digital arrest cases in Hyderabad, an 81-year-old retired businessman reported being scammed of over Rs 7 crore using the same modus operandi. Posing as Mumbai Police officers, the cyber fraudsters threatened to arrest him in a bogus drug-trafficking and fake passports case and extorted the money.According to a complaint…
As another year winds down, a cybercrime epidemic of mindboggling proportions continues unabated in India. Striking with impunity and alarming frequency, there is seemingly no tactic that’s too bizarre and no target that’s out of reach for cyber fraudsters. Earlier this year, a doctor in Gujarat was kept under video surveillance for three months, reportedly…
In one of Karnataka’s biggest-ever “digital arrest” scams, a 57-year-old Bengaluru woman was duped of nearly Rs 32 crore over six months.The software engineer from Indiranagar told investigators she remained trapped in the elaborate fraud until the scammers finally issued her a so-called “clearance letter.”Posing as CBI officers, the fraudsters reportedly placed her under a…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognisance of spiralling incidents of seamsters suing ‘digital arrest’ to extort money from citizens, especially senior citizens, after a septuagenarian woman from Ambala made a startling complaint – orders of SC were forged by scammers to con her into parting with over Rs 1 crore of…
