Overview
- Delhi Police said they arrested eight people in an online trading scam, traced handlers to Cambodia, and found the money flowed through mule bank accounts opened across several states.
- Investigators linked more than 60 national cybercrime complaints to those accounts and flagged about ₹4.5 crore in suspicious transfers within two weeks.
- Uttar Pradesh cyber teams expanded their probe after a Lakhimpur Kheri raid that led to 12 arrests and the seizure of 1,494 SIM cards, 180 ATM cards and forged IDs used to run rented bank accounts.
- A separate month-long Delhi drive earlier exposed scams from digital arrest to fake dating, led to 35 arrests, and secured ₹1.11 crore with ₹51.95 lakh returned to victims from cases tied to nearly ₹40 crore in activity.
- Police say these rackets recruit people for their IDs and SIMs, run one-time-password sharing groups to control accounts, layer transfers to hide the trail, and often convert the proceeds into USDT cryptocurrency.