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CBI and Police Break Up Tech Support and Digital Arrest Scams with Over a Dozen Arrests

International collaboration powered raids in Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Mumbai, exposing scams that tricked Japanese citizens with fake tech support alerts.

the police have recovered ₹11.3 lakh from the accused, apart from a laptop, 18 mobile phones, 18 cheque books of various banks, 32 debit cards, 33 cheques, 27 Vodafone SIM cards, 2 passbooks, 10 rubber stamps in the name of bogus firms and 36 bank kits in the name of 10 companies. (Bachchan Kumar/ HT PHOTO)
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Overview

  • Under Operation Chakra-V, the CBI arrested six operatives across Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh after coordinated raids at 19 locations dismantled two illicit call centres targeting Japanese nationals.
  • Investigators say the syndicate used pop-up virus warnings and impersonated Microsoft and Apple support staff to coerce victims into transferring over ₹1.2 crore into mule accounts later laundered via cryptocurrency.
  • Navi Mumbai Police arrested three men who used bogus CBI, ED and Supreme Court letterheads to place a doctor under ‘digital arrest’ and extort nearly ₹2 crore.
  • Mumbai Cyber Cell detained two Pune residents for defrauding a retired teacher of ₹1.72 crore through a digital arrest scam, and Delhi Police apprehended four men in a ₹49 lakh fake investment fraud against a retired Air Force officer.
  • Authorities are combining high-tech digital forensics, international partnerships with Japan’s National Police Agency and Microsoft, and coordinated multi-state operations to disrupt increasingly sophisticated cybercrime networks.