Mumbai: A 77-year-old woman from Mumbai was kept under "digital arrest" for a month by cyber fraudsters who posed as law enforcement officials and made her transfer Rs 3.8 crore, claiming

There is a rise in cybercrime sharing similar patterns that “digitally arrest“ victims and dupes lakhs and even crores from them

For over a month, a housewife from Mumbai was placed under "digital custody" and defrauded of Rs 3.8 crore by scammers posing as law enforcement officers looking into a false money laundering case

A 55-year-old man from Faridabad falls victim to a cyber scam, believing he was under investigation for money laundering. He transferred thousands and traveled to Bihar before realizing he had been scammed.

One fine day, the woman received a WhatsApp call stating that the parcel she had sent to Taiwan was halted. Five passports, a bank card, 4 kg of clothes and MDMA drugs have been seized, the caller claimed. A random WhatsApp call from an unknown number was just the beginning of the cyber fraud.

A 77-year-old woman from South Mumbai was kept under ‘digital custody’ for over a month by scammers who threatened her with arrest and duped her of Rs 3.8 crore. With cases of ‘digital arrest’ scams on the rise,

The ordeal began when the woman received a WhatsApp call claiming that a parcel she had allegedly sent to Taiwan had been intercepted by authorities.

A 77-year-old woman from south Mumbai was scammed out of Rs 3.8 crore by cyber fraudsters posing as law enforcement officials. Threatened with arrest in a fake money laundering case, she was kept under "digital custody" for over a month,

A 77-year-old Mumbai woman endured a month-long "digital detention" orchestrated by cyber fraudsters impersonating law enforcement. Threatened with arrest in a fabricated money laundering case, she was coerced into transferring ₹3.