Digital Arrest Scam

Cyber criminals have duped an IIT Jodhpur professor of nearly Rs 12 lakh after being held under 'digit arrest' for 12 days.

A Noida-based woman doctor has lost Rs 59 lakh after scamsters tricked her into 'digital arrest' for 48 hours - a modus operandi that is being increasingly used in Delhi NCR to dupe people.

A group of scammers posing as CBI officers targeted a Lucknow writer-poet and kept him under digital arrest for six hours.

A famous city-based progressive writer and poet, Naresh Saxena, was kept under digital arrest in his room for six long hours by cyberheist operators posing as CBI officers in Lucknow, police officials said.

A cash-for-marks scam has been detected in Assam in which nine people have been arrested. The men, the police say, have been conducting digital tampering of marksheets.

The Uttar Pradesh Police has launched an investigation after a Noida resident found herself at the receiving end of a new cyber fraud trend, wherein she was duped of more than Rs 11 lakh and held under "digital arrest" for a day.

A 22-year-old British citizen was arrested in Spain on Wednesday in connection with a July 2020 Twitter hack that compromised the accounts of high-profile politicians and celebrities, the US Justice Department said.

Cyber criminals have duped an IIT Jodhpur professor of nearly Rs 12 lakh after being held under 'digit arrest' for 12 days.

A Noida-based woman doctor has lost Rs 59 lakh after scamsters tricked her into 'digital arrest' for 48 hours - a modus operandi that is being increasingly used in Delhi NCR to dupe people.

A group of scammers posing as CBI officers targeted a Lucknow writer-poet and kept him under digital arrest for six hours.

A famous city-based progressive writer and poet, Naresh Saxena, was kept under digital arrest in his room for six long hours by cyberheist operators posing as CBI officers in Lucknow, police officials said.

A cash-for-marks scam has been detected in Assam in which nine people have been arrested. The men, the police say, have been conducting digital tampering of marksheets.

The Uttar Pradesh Police has launched an investigation after a Noida resident found herself at the receiving end of a new cyber fraud trend, wherein she was duped of more than Rs 11 lakh and held under "digital arrest" for a day.

A 22-year-old British citizen was arrested in Spain on Wednesday in connection with a July 2020 Twitter hack that compromised the accounts of high-profile politicians and celebrities, the US Justice Department said.