Seven members of a gang of fraudsters were arrested by Delhi Police for cheating gullible victims on the pretext of helping them in the release of maturity amount of insurance policies on Tuesday. They had cheated approx Rs 6 cores from 10 victims.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested the kingpin of a cyber syndicate on charges of layering and siphoning off Rs 4,978 crore generated from various cyber-crimes and online gaming ongoing all across India during 2020 to 2024, the agency said on Wednesday.
The elaborate scam saw the worker duped into attending a video call with what he thought were several other members of staff, but all of whom were in fact 'deepfake' recreations.
This scam has prompted the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) to approach Uttar Pradesh police. The VHP has also issued a warning on social media, asking people not to fall prey to the scam.
Hyderabad Cyber Crime Police arrested one Harsh Kumar, aged 24 years from Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh on charges that he facilitated a Binance account to Chinese fraudsters.
According to an official press release from the Ministry of Finance, "Overall in FY2023-24, Rs 1.36 lakh crore has been detected as overall GST evasion (including fake ITC) and voluntary payment of Rs 14,108 crore has been made for the same."
A case was registered on May 11, 2023, against the two accussed on the allegations that they have been impersonating as government officials of Canada, utilizing this facade to execute their fraudulent activities.
Hyderabad Police Commissioner CV Ananda said the nine accused from Mumbai, Lucknow, Gujarat and Hyderabad were suspected to have links with fraudsters from Dubai and China.
"Delhi Police arrested four fraudsters, Rahul Sharma, Amir Ansari, Kalim Ansari, and Nikhil Pal, and solved a cheating case involving Rs. 1,94,000/- registered u/s 420 IPC, Cyber PS/NE and recovered 7 mobile phones, 10 SIM cards, 7 ATM cards, 11 chequebooks, and 1 passbook. They started chea