Jamtara is going all out to erase its tag as a cybercrime capital. Cops are running coaching classes, turning old thanas into libraries, and inviting YouTubers to teach positive internet use.
In Part 2 of this two-part series, ThePrint spoke to Pao Pao, a recruiter who said those hired for ‘digital arrest’ scams submit passports and are only allowed to leave compound thrice a week.
As many as a thousand people were detained after joint raids by Thai and Cambodian law enforcement agencies from various scam farms over the past week, it is learnt.
In the past 11 months, 90,000 digital arrest scams have been reported with victims losing over Rs 2,100 cr. Many more cases likely go unreported due to embarrassment or lack of awareness.
FIR states 75-yr-old Sonipat resident was told he was implicated in ‘money laundering probe’. Fraudsters posing as cops even shared copies of ‘FIR and arrest warrant’ on WhatsApp.
ED says the platform used complex process with dummy e-commerce sites, shell companies & cryptocurrencies to defraud investors. ED plans to contact foreign authorities to help with probe.
Telegram's Russia-born founder was arrested by French police during preliminary investigation into cyber crimes through Telegram, drawing flak from Moscow.
CBI arrested 43 from call centre in Gurugram’s DLF Cyber City in raid part of Operation CHAKRA-III. Agency suspects accused made millions of dollars each month, it is learnt.
China’s growing deployment of survey vessels in the Indian Ocean underscores a reality only recently acknowledged in the wider strategic discourse: hydrography is geopolitical currency.
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