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Pune: Tips to bag high profits in share trading makes Army veteran lose Rs 64 lakh

July 20, 2025 10:56 pm

The corresponding gain on the fraudulent app displayed Rs 7.7 crore. When he tried to withdraw the gains, he was told that he would have to pay 10 per cent of the sum

Pune doctor threatened with arrest in ‘organ trafficking racket’, loses Rs 70 lakh in cyber fraud

March 18, 2025 10:38 pm

The fraudsters threatened to arrest the doctor and asked her to remain on a call saying she was under surveillance

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Drama, fear key ingredients in cyber fraud: ‘Sleep with your camera on’

November 01, 2024 11:42 pm

This is a key pattern that has emerged in police investigations into cyber fraud cases such as “digital arrest”, which was highlighted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last Sunday in his 'Mann Ki Baat' programme.

‘Your husband could also be involved': Cyber extortionists threaten Pune doctor with Rs 82-cr money-laundering claim

July 08, 2024 8:27 am

The fraudster, on the pretext of verification, then took details of her bank accounts and asked her to liquidate her fixed deposits of over Rs 6 lakhs.

These are among at least a dozen cases that the Cyber investigators from Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad police have reported over the past one month

Cyber cons drop names of Raj Kundra, Naresh Goyal cases to threaten victims with arrests

July 05, 2024 7:58 am

Officials said that all these scams start with the victim receiving a call from fraudsters posing as officials of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

The victim was asked to download a video calling application and made to call a person wearing a ‘police uniform’. The latter then allegedly told the Army veteran that his name could be cleared from the investigation. (File/ Representational)

Cyber fraudsters dupe Army veteran of Rs 3.1 crore after threatening to book him in money laundering case

June 20, 2024 7:00 pm

The caller then connected him to a person who was posing as an 'officer from Nehru Nagar police station' in Mumbai.

Duped under guise of 'national security threat', Pune woman loses Rs 1.6 cr to cyber fraudsters

June 09, 2024 9:22 pm

As the cyber criminals kept raising their demands, the woman finally confided in her daughter who told her that she had been cheated by cyber criminals.