Overview
- The CBI has taken over the Delhi case of a 73-year-old retired engineer who transferred more than Rs 10.3 crore during a coerced video call, with police freezing about Rs 60 lakh.
- In Noida, cybercrime police registered a case after an 84-year-old and his wife lost Rs 85 lakh over 16 days of so-called digital arrest by callers claiming to be officials.
- In Lucknow, 85-year-old Badruddin Ansari sent Rs 84.5 lakh to people posing as police and ATS, and investigators have frozen Rs 27 lakh linked to the transfers.
- Fraudsters sent fake agency papers on WhatsApp and Signal, kept victims on video calls, and issued threats to force payments, often routing money through many bank accounts.
- The Supreme Court flagged the surge in these scams before the Home Ministry moved the Delhi probe to the CBI, and investigators now look at overseas callers working with Indian money mules.