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A woman lost ₹40 lakh after a call in November 2024 from someone claiming to be from the telecom regulator, who said her number was being blocked. She was put through to a supposed Mumbai police officer, who said her Aadhaar had been used to open a bank account with ₹6 crore of illegal transactions, and threatened to arrest her.

Police later arrested three men who had passed a "mule" bank…

A 75-year-old woman in Mangaluru lost ₹2 crore after a call in September 2026 from a man who said he was a Mumbai police officer. He told her she was linked to money laundering, drug dealing and child trafficking. A supposed CBI officer then came on a WhatsApp video call and said she was bound by a "National Secrecy Act" of the Supreme Court, was being watched, and must tell no one.

She was…

A retired employee in Hyderabad lost ₹59 lakh in three days in December 2025. Callers posing as police and government officials reached him on WhatsApp, accused him of human trafficking, job fraud and money laundering, and sent him forged arrest warrants. Under constant threat of arrest, he moved the money by RTGS to several accounts.

Police said the gang had also used malicious app files to get…

How a "digital arrest" usually goes. A retired engineer gets a call from someone who says a parcel in his name was stopped at customs. Within minutes the call is "transferred" to a man in police uniform on a video call, with an office and flags behind him. He says the engineer's Aadhaar is linked to a money laundering case and that he is now under digital arrest: he must stay on camera, tell no…