# Mumbai police arrest two in ₹48.60 lakh Boss scam 2026-08-18T11:16:50+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets Mumbai police’s cybercrime department arrested two men from Bihar and Jharkhand between August 14 and 16 for defrauding a company accountant of ₹48.60 lakh in a ‘Boss scam’. The accused, identified as Aamir Chand Mohammad Khan and Suraj Kumar Pradeep Kumar Saw, allegedly impersonated the complainant’s CEO on WhatsApp and tricked him into transferring money to a mule account in Kolkata, police said. The arrests are linked to seven similar cases across India, including in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, totalling fraud of about ₹10.40 crore, of which ₹6 crore has been retrieved. The scam, flagged by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre and Sebi, involves malware-laden files that hijack WhatsApp Web sessions to impersonate senior executives and demand urgent fund transfers. The two accused were remanded to police custody till August 25. Police said they seized 161 SIM cards, a megaphone and a phone used to activate SIMs illegally from the accused, and have held the entire defrauded amount. Investigation is ongoing. ## Indian Opinion Analysis India Today’s report is a detailed advisory-style explainer of the Boss Scam mechanism, heavily drawn from official warnings by I4C and Sebi. The Hindu leads with a concrete arrest in Mumbai, emphasising the human and investigative dimension. India Today omits the arrest entirely, while The Hindu downplays the broader advisory context after its first paragraph. The measured middle ground is that the scam exists and is being tackled: India Today shows the threat, The Hindu shows the response. The number to watch is ₹10.40 crore total fraud linked to the arrested network, with ₹6 crore already recovered. ## Coverage Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral - indiatoday.in (neutral report) Frames the story as a general advisory warning, leads with scam method and official alerts, no arrest detail - thehindu.com (neutral report) Frames the story as a police success, leads with arrest and amount recovered, names accused and modus This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources. Last updated 2026-08-20T05:51:13+00:00. Tags: boss scam, Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre, National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal, SEBI, WhatsApp Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/boss-scam-fraudsters-hijack-ceo-whatsapp-to-steal-company-funds/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/boss-scam-fraudsters-hijack-ceo-whatsapp-to-steal-company-funds/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/