Overview
- Noida police registered an FIR after an engineering consultant lost nearly ₹12 crore to a WhatsApp-linked fake trading app, with investigators identifying multiple recipient accounts and moving to freeze funds.
- Gurgaon police reported 214 arrests, ₹8.77 crore frozen and 140 FIRs in a November drive, saying 3,557 complaints were logged and ₹3.52 crore was refunded through the 1930 helpline’s real-time response.
- Hyderabad cybercrime officers arrested three men from Rajasthan for a digital-arrest scheme that coerced a victim to transfer ₹37.70 lakh, with the suspects linked to six cases across four states and transactions of about ₹3 crore.
- Hyderabad police issued a detailed advisory on malicious APK files sent over WhatsApp or SMS that capture OTPs and credentials, citing recent cases where individuals lost sums ranging from ₹1.31 lakh to ₹2.95 lakh after installing such apps.
- A joint police team arrested three suspects accused of creating and supplying fake current accounts used to launder proceeds and convert them to cryptocurrency, with about ₹2.80 crore routed through the seized accounts.