The Telangana Cyber Security Bureau has registered a case against users of six phone numbers and others after a complaint from the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board about fraudulent WhatsApp…
A 66-year-old woman from Vasai, Mumbai, was cheated out of Rs 12 lakh after cyber fraudsters used an AI-generated deepfake video of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Vijay to promise financial assistance. The…
A 51-year-old Bengaluru man lost Rs 6.2 lakh after fraudsters posing as a telecom representative tricked him into upgrading his SIM to an e-sim through remote activation. The victim, Sagar, shared an…
A retired college principal from Deonar in Mumbai lost Rs 17 lakh on August 8 after a scammer posing as an Election Commission official tricked him into downloading an APK file. The…
Chhattisgarh IPS officer Rahul Bansal has dismissed as 'baseless' an allegation that he took a Rs 1 crore bribe to settle a cyber-fraud case. The complaint, filed by Ravi Mohan Goswami, claims…
Police in Thane have busted a cyber fraud syndicate that allegedly lured seven men from Mumbra with fake overseas jobs and forced them to scam Indians from a centre in Kampot, Cambodia.…
The Press Information Bureau's Fact Check team has confirmed that a notice circulating online, asking taxpayers to pay Rs 6,000 as tax, is a phishing scam. The fake message urges recipients to…
Tiruchy residents have lost an estimated Rs 1.2 crore to Rs 1.6 crore since January in a scam involving fake RTO challan messages sent via WhatsApp, police say. The Tiruchy City Cyber…
A west Delhi businessman lost Rs50 lakh in a work-from-home fraud. The man was added to a social media group of 40 members and given tasks to rate restaurants, receiving Rs1,105 for…
A 27-year-old chartered accountant from Hyderabad lost Rs 2.4 crore in a stock trading scam between November and December 2025. Fraudsters contacted him via email and Telegram, posing as trading experts, and…
