Overview
- Cyberabad police raided a Madhapur office posing as Ridge IT Solutions, arresting nine for allegedly defrauding Australian citizens of ₹8–10 crore, and seized 12 computers, 21 phones and records tied to about 45 Australian bank accounts.
- Investigators said the call-centre scheme used fake pop‑ups and VoIP to route victims to Hyderabad, took remote access via AnyDesk, and moved stolen funds through Australian mule accounts before routing the money to India via hawala and cryptocurrency.
- Hyderabad Cyber Crime arrested two men from Vashi in a ₹12.3 lakh trading‑fraud case, alleging one relayed OTPs via an APK to an associate and the other supplied mule bank accounts used to channel deposits.
- Cyberabad also detained six members of an inter‑State network that sourced mule accounts and SIMs for online trading scams, with forensic evidence linking the group to nearly 400 fraud incidents and losses exceeding ₹1.09 crore.
- Separate actions targeted intimidation scams labelled ‘digital arrest’, with Hyderabad police arresting three in a ₹1.92 crore case involving a 71‑year‑old victim and Madanapalle police nabbing three in a cell officials say is tied to networks operating out of Cambodia and Kuwait.