Ahmedabad: Planning a religious trip to Palitana didn’t go well for a family in the city, as they fell victim to an online accommodation booking scam and lost around Rs 8,000. According to a complaint filed by 26-year-old Surbhi Sanghavi at Anandnagar Police Station, she and her brother Riddhesh Sanghvi were searching online for a dharamshala in Palitana on February 7. During the online search, they found a website named "suntarbhavanpalitana.in", which displayed a mobile number for booking...Read More

Ahmedabad: In a surprising case, an IT professional working in a firm that provides IT and cyber security services fell victim to a cyber fraud via a dating app and was duped of Rs 31 lakh. The victim, working in Gandhinagar, who was seeking companionship and extra income, connected with a woman identifying herself as an investor named Sherin from Bengaluru in April 2024. As per the FIR filed with Gandhinagar Range Cybercrime Police, Sherin encouraged the man to earn through online trading and ...Read More

Surat: Cybercrime police in Gujarat have busted a gang of seven individuals, for their involvement in a sophisticated digital arrest scam that defrauded a Bhestan Surat based victim of ₹20.50 lakhs. The accused were apprehended by the Jamnagar police based on information provided by the Cyber Cell. The suspects allegedly orchestrated the scam, impersonating Mumbai Cyber Crime officials and falsely claiming to have digitally arrested a victim Rampyare Pandey who is a teacher living in Bhesta...Read More

Ahmedabad: The cybercrime branch of the city police has busted a gang involved in a Paytm Soundbox fraud, which duped shopkeepers across Gujarat out of lakhs of rupees. The police arrested six individuals, including the mastermind—a former Paytm employee—who allegedly carried out the scam by gaining access to victims' banking apps and siphoning off money under the guise of a fee reduction. The case came to light when a shopkeeper from Vasna lost ₹6 lakh to fraud and approached the police....Read More

Morbi: The local cybercrime police have arrested Rituanand Parmeshwar Prasad Singh, a 24-year-old mastermind behind an interstate cyber fraud gang that duped people by cloning websites of leading brands. Singh, a Jharkhand resident, was caught in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, after being on the run. Operating under the name "Remobit Infotech," the gang created over 90 fake websites impersonating brands like Tata Zudio, Domino’s, KFC, McDonald’s, Decathlon, and Royal Enfield, as well as dealership a...Read More

Gandhinagar: HDFC Bank today through  a media release informed that an alert HDFC Bank’s staff in Deesa, Gujarat, was able to safeguard ₹ 59.67 lakhs of a customer preventing him from being cheated by fraudster via the digital arrest scam. An alert staff of HDFC Bank’s Dessa branch noticed an abnormal credit in one of the accounts which was not active. The staff promptly initiated an investigation upon recognising discrepancies in the transaction pattern. Through a series of swift and d...Read More

Surat: Local police have apprehended four gang members, including one from Mumbai, suspected of providing 623 bank accounts to cybercriminals in India and abroad, facilitating fraudulent transfers exceeding Rs 111 crore. Three of the accused were caught transferring funds deposited by cyber fraud victims from one account to another during a raid on an office in Surat, Gujarat, on Tuesday. According to a police release, these bank accounts were used by cybercriminals based in India, Dubai, and...Read More

Rajkot: It has come to light that the main perpetrators in the digital arrest fraud case targeting a senior citizen from the city have been operating from Cambodia. The case involves Mahendrabhai Andarjibhai Mehta, a 71-year-old retired bank manager from Rajkot who fell victim to a digital arrest scam. Fraudsters claimed that the money in Mehta's account was connected to money-laundering activities and coerced him into transfeeing Rs 56 lakh to different bank accounts. Later, when Mehta appro...Read More

Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad Police announced on Monday that its Cyber Crime Branch has registered a case against a Twitter user operating under the handle "MissPayalGupta" for allegedly spreading misinformation intended to tarnish Gujarat's reputation. The Twitter account "MissPayalGupta" shared a video on November 1, claiming, “After the accident, the patient was brought to the hospital where, due to lack of space, the patient died in agony on the floor!! The video is said to be from Gujarat.” ...Read More

Surat: The Cybercrime police arrested 10 people on Friday night and busted a racket running a call center under the name of a study center called 'Learn N Earn.' The call center, operating in the Althan area of the city, would contact job seekers, offering them “English speaking and personality development courses” along with job promises. They made the job seekers enter into a contract, after which they were pressured to pay certain ‘fees.’ If they refused, a bogus legal notice would...Read More