Overview
- Belagavi police said an 81-year-old businessman was coerced over six weeks into transferring about ₹15.45 crore after callers posing as CBI officials threatened arrest, with roughly ₹90 lakh traced and a special team formed.
- Hyderabad police registered a case after fraudsters impersonated a company CEO on WhatsApp and got the accountant to wire ₹1.20 crore to multiple accounts earlier this month.
- Mumbai’s North Region Cyber Cell arrested Karan Suresh Kansaria, 49, for allegedly providing bank accounts used to route ₹91 lakh taken from a 63-year-old retiree in a ‘digital arrest’ ruse.
- Panchkula’s cyber unit arrested Krishna Kumar Rai in a fake stock‑app scheme that extracted ₹54.50 lakh; about ₹4.65 lakh was found in his account as police pursue additional suspects.
- Authorities flagged similar cases spanning a malicious APK that cost an Andhra MLA ₹12 lakh and trading‑app and sextortion scams in Cyberabad and Hyderabad, and urged reporting to the 1930 cyber helpline.