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Mumbai police arrest two in ₹48.60 lakh Boss scam
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: 2 sources, 2 neutral
Sources (2): indiatoday.in (neutral report), thehindu.com (neutral report)
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Methodology and corrections.
Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
