Aman and his associates used to create fake Instagram pages and present themselves as Apple product resellers. They lured people by offering heavy discounts and gained their trust by showing fake customer chats and photos. Once a customer contacted them, they would send a UPI QR code for
In a major breakthrough against cyber fraud, Delhi Police's Cyber Crime Unit (West District) has arrested two individuals from Gujarat linked to a high-profile "digital arrest" scam that defrauded a government employee of Rs 7 lakh.
The operation was carried out under the supervision of ACP Sh. Anil Sharma comprised teams of Inspector Sandeep Singh, Inspector Ashok Kumar, Inspector Shivram, and Inspector Subash.
The Supreme Court on Friday took suo motu cognisance of incidents of digital arrest scams, where fraudsters impersonate law enforcement agencies or judicial authorities to extort money from citizens, particularly senior citizens, and sought a response from the Centre and the CBI.
The Delhi Police have arrested a cybercriminal involved in an online extortion racket, where he befriended women by posing as a woman on social media and later blackmailed them using their private photographs and videos.
The Delhi Police Cyber Crime team has busted a crypto fraud racket that duped people on the pretext of offering work-from-home opportunities, leading to the arrest of one accused from Punjab.
ED said the training programme is being conducted under the framework of the ED-FCC Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed earlier this year in March 2025, aimed at strengthening bilateral cooperation in combating financial crimes.
The caller alleged that her mobile number wasn't linked to her Aadhaar card and falsely claimed that obscene videos were being circulated from her number, threatening to disconnect her mobile services by noon.
PTI founder Imran Khan refused to meet cybercrime investigators at Adiala Jail over tweets from his account, Dawn reported. A petition in the Islamabad High Court seeks conjugal rights for Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi, while security is tightened for his video-linked court appearance.
Bharti Airtel today announced that its anti-fraud initiatives have resulted in a significant decline in cybercrime complaints, and that this has been further endorsed by recent information from the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) -- Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
As part of 'Operation Chakra', in continuation of its sustained efforts to combat cyber crimes and break the Cyber Crime infrastructure, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted searches at five locations in Cachar District, Assam. During the search operation, CBI arrested three p