Ahmedabad: A 38-year-old architect from Sarkhej was allegedly cheated of ₹1.3 crore in a cyber fraud after falling for a social media advertisement promising high returns through stock market investments. The city cybercrime police registered an FIR on Tuesday. According to the complaint, the victim, who runs an architectural design firm, saw an Instagram advertisement on February 5 claiming assured profits through stock trading and IPO investments. After clicking the link, he filled in perso...Read More

Ahmedabad: The city cybercrime police on Saturday uncovered an illegal call centre allegedly used to defraud Canadian citizens and arrested four persons involved in the racket. According to a complaint lodged by PSI Y. V. Solanki of the Cybercrime police station, officers received late-night inputs about a group operating a fake call centre from a flat located on New CG Road in Chandkheda. Acting on the tip-off, a police team raided the flat in Sopan Heights. Officials said the team first cont...Read More

New Delhi: The CBI has registered two separate cases of digital arrest cyber fraud involving victims from Gujarat, a retired professor from Ahmedabad and a retired gynaecologist from Gandhinagar, who were cheated of a total of about Rs 30.66 crore. The cases were taken over by the CBI following directions from the Supreme Court in view of the growing number of serious cyber fraud incidents across the country. According to officials, cyber fraudsters posed as officers of the Telecom Regulatory A...Read More

Surat: The Cyber Crime Police in Surat have busted an illegal online betting and gaming racket operating through a website and arrested nine individuals from Rewa in Madhya Pradesh. Investigations revealed that the accused used the betting platform to circulate and launder money siphoned off through cyber frauds committed across the country. According to police, the accused are linked to 110 cyber fraud complaints across 21 states, involving transactions worth ₹19.24 crore routed through 391...Read More

Ahmedabad: A major breakthrough has been made in a multi-state cyber fraud case after Ahmedabad Cyber Crime arrested Bhavnagar district NSUI president Arshmaan Khan Zoravar Khan Shuk (Baluch), who allegedly supplied bank accounts to an international cybercrime syndicate and earned heavy commissions through hawala transactions. The arrest came during the investigation of a complaint in which an Ahmedabad resident was duped of ₹50.50 lakh after being added to a fake WhatsApp investment group tit...Read More

Navsari | In a major breakthrough, Navsari Cyber Crime police arrested a gang of four from Vapi for duping a youth of Gandevi taluka by sending a fake APK file of an RTO challan through WhatsApp. The accused allegedly hacked the victim’s phone and siphoned off money from his bank account. According to police sources, the victim had lodged a complaint stating that unknown persons tricked him into downloading and installing an application disguised as an e-RTO challan. Once installed, the mal...Read More

Ahmedabad: The Cyber Crime Branch of the city police on Thursday cracked a major cross-border scam, arresting two men accused of supplying thousands of SIM cards to a Chinese cyber gang allegedly responsible for multiple “digital arrest” frauds. The accused, already jailed in Madhya Pradesh, allegedly used fake companies to procure SIM cards, which were exploited in scams. In one case, an Ahmedabad resident lost ₹86.22 lakh after fraudsters impersonated police officers, sent fake Supreme ...Read More

Ahmedabad: In yet another alarming sign of how cybercrime networks keep refining their methods, several city residents have recently fallen prey to online scams. In one incident, a woman from Navrangpura lost ₹1.43 lakh after receiving a message that appeared to come from the RTO, containing an APK file labeled ‘RTO Challan’. After downloading the file, her phone was flooded with OTPs and banking alerts revealing unauthorised transactions. Navrangpura police have registered a case and l...Read More

Surat: Udhna police have arrested eight officials of RBL Bank, including the area head, for their alleged role in facilitating cyber fraud transactions amounting to ₹1,550 crore. The arrests come as part of an ongoing probe into a large-scale racket where fraudsters used dozens of mule accounts to channel swindled money from across the country. The bankers are accused of helping open 62 fake current accounts for cybercriminals. Police began investigating the case in May after apprehending t...Read More

Surat: Operators of around 8 petrol pumps in Surat have complained that their bank accounts are seized by police for cyber crime without their any involvement in any crime. Thousands of people visit any petrol pump in Surat everyday. Many of the customers make payment digitally for fuel. Pump operators have through the Chamber of Commerce approached the Minister of State for Home, Harsh Sanghavi in written representation that their accounts are seized by police because their some customers alle...Read More