Overview
- Gurugram cyber police raided a Janakpuri flat and arrested five people who ran a fake call centre that lured victims with promises to raise credit card limits and stole card details via fraudulent links.
- Separate Gurugram operations also led to the arrest of two men accused of supplying bank accounts that routed Rs 78 lakh from a 'digital arrest' extortion, with one account traced to at least dozens of other fraud complaints.
- Delhi Police and the CBI have carried out month-long crackdowns that uncovered multiple interstate mule-account networks, recovered phones, SIMs and debit cards, and secured partial freezes on stolen funds.
- Investigators say the scams follow a repeatable model: criminals buy or recruit 'mule' bank accounts, use leaked or dark-web customer data and social engineering (including impersonating banks or police) to coerce payments, then quickly layer and withdraw money.
- Probes are ongoing to identify the principal suppliers and masterminds, recover larger sums and disrupt the financial rails used to launder proceeds as authorities urge people not to share OTPs or full card details to unsolicited callers.