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The Cyber Crime Police of Hyderabad arrested a 28-year-old man from Kadiri in Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh, for his alleged involvement in an online investment and trading scam. The accused was remanded to judicial custody following his arrest in Tirupati. According to an officer from Cyber Crimes wing, Kandukuru Sulthan Ahmad Khan was arrested after…
A director of a multinational company was duped of ₹7.5 lakh after a cyber fraudster, posing as his company’s CEO, tricked him into buying Apple store gift vouchers. Baed on a complaint filed by Abhishek Mitra, the Whitefield Division Cyber Crime Police have registered an FIR on Friday charging the accused under the IT Act,…
The police have booked a man for allegedly duping a woman of over ₹10 lakh after befriending her through social media | Photo Credit: Reuters The Thrikkakara police have booked a man for allegedly duping a woman of over ₹10 lakh after befriending her through social media. The police on Friday (September 19, 2025) registered…
A 68-year-old resident of Santoshnagar lost ₹14.35 lakh to fraudsters who used Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s photograph in a fake advertisement. According to police, the victim came across a Facebook advertisement in June 2025, which promised high returns through investments in metal trading. After clicking the link, he received WhatsApp calls from a man claiming…
Two techies from the city were duped of ₹2.2 crore in total by cyber fraudters in investment scams. Cybercrime police are now probing both cases and trying to track down the accused by following the money trail. In the first case, 31-year-old Tanmay Mukherjee, a software engineer from Whitefield, lost ₹1.31 crore when he started…
The Cyberabad police recovered 310 stolen and lost mobile phones worth around ₹95 lakh in the last 30 days, and handed them back to their rightful owners. The recovery was part of the department’s seventh phase of mobile tracing, carried out using the Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR) portal. Led by DCP Crimes L.C. Naik,…
New Delhi: Social media platform WhatsApp followed by Telegram and Instagram remains one of the favourite hunting grounds for online scamsters, as per the latest report from the Union Home Ministry. In the first three months of year 2024, total 43,797 complaints regarding cyber frauds through WhatsApp were received followed by 22,680 complaints against Telegram…
