Overview
- Hyderabad’s cybercrime wing issued a public alert on rising online trading frauds on WhatsApp and Telegram, urging verification with SEBI and reporting via helpline 1930 or the national cyber portal.
- Multiple FIRs detail seniors duped through fake trading apps that showed inflated profits before blocking withdrawals, including losses of ₹1.6 crore in Navi Mumbai and ₹1.06 crore in Thane.
- Police reported fresh ‘digital arrest’ cases in Bengaluru, Jabalpur and Pune where callers posed as ATS, CBI or police officials, kept victims on video calls, sent forged notices and extracted payments.
- Nagpur cyber police arrested three suspects for extorting ₹1.51 crore through a digital-arrest ruse, tracing the money trail to Rajkot and naming the accused.
- Delhi Police said a key accused was held after raids uncovered shell firms and a laundering route using USDT sold to a Chinese handler, with devices, chequebooks and cards seized as probes continue.