Cybercrime Allegations

A 51-year-old man was allegedly duped of Rs 4 lakh by three people who offered to exchange his foreign currency at Dombivli in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Tuesday.

The boss of social media platform Telegram has been arrested in France, accused of allowing the sharing of illegal content.

France held the Russian-born founder of Telegram Pavel Durov in custody for a second day of questioning on Monday over alleged offences related to the popular but controversial messaging app, which insisted he had "nothing to hide".

A 42-year-old man from Western Australia faces charges for allegedly setting up fake Wi-Fi networks at airports and on domestic flights across Perth, Melbourne, and Adelaide.

As many as 137 Indian nationals who were allegedly involved in a large-scale online financial scam across multiple locations in Sri Lanka have been arrested by police, according to a media report on Friday.

The Odisha Police on Tuesday arrested a person for allegedly duping people of Rs 50 crore on the pretext of high returns from investment in various schemes of a firm.

The Visakhapatnam police said it busted a cybercrime racket and arrested three consultancy agents for allegedly luring unemployed youths and sending them to Chinese-operated cybercrime rings in countries such as Cambodia, Myanmar, and Thailand.

A cybercrime team of the Gurugram Police has arrested a man for allegedly killing his colleague 17 years back in September 2007 inside a school in Sector-31.

The US offered a reward of up to $15 million for information on the leaders of the notorious cybercrime group Lockbit on Wednesday as police in Ukraine announced the arrest of a father-son duo alleged to have been involved with the gang.

Uttar Pradesh Police in a joint operation have arrested three persons, including a Samajwadi Party leader from Mathura, accused of running an alleged cybercrime racket under the guise of a public service centre.

The Gujarat police have arrested a man who allegedly posed as an official from the chief minister's office (CMO) and asked Jamnagar superintendent of police to release an accused arrested in a cybercrime case, an official said on Sunday.

The CBI has booked five people for allegedly posing as Microsoft tech support and siphoning off USD 400,000 (Rs 3.37 crore as per current rates) retirement funds of a US citizen, officials said on Friday.

Nigerian nationals and Chinese gangs are allegedly trapping innocent people on the pretext of offering money for performing easy tasks online or on the promise of lucrative returns by investing in cryptocurrencies, said a police officer.

Intelligence Fusion & Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit of the Delhi police unit has registered a case against a cyber crime con for allegedly cheating a woman doctor of Rs 4.5 crore in the national capital, officials said on Saturday.

A software engineer working with an IT company here was allegedly duped of around Rs 42 lakh by scammers who lured him into earning handsome money by liking some videos, police said on Saturday.

A 51-year-old man was allegedly duped of Rs 4 lakh by three people who offered to exchange his foreign currency at Dombivli in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Tuesday.

The boss of social media platform Telegram has been arrested in France, accused of allowing the sharing of illegal content.

France held the Russian-born founder of Telegram Pavel Durov in custody for a second day of questioning on Monday over alleged offences related to the popular but controversial messaging app, which insisted he had "nothing to hide".

A 42-year-old man from Western Australia faces charges for allegedly setting up fake Wi-Fi networks at airports and on domestic flights across Perth, Melbourne, and Adelaide.

As many as 137 Indian nationals who were allegedly involved in a large-scale online financial scam across multiple locations in Sri Lanka have been arrested by police, according to a media report on Friday.

The Odisha Police on Tuesday arrested a person for allegedly duping people of Rs 50 crore on the pretext of high returns from investment in various schemes of a firm.

The Visakhapatnam police said it busted a cybercrime racket and arrested three consultancy agents for allegedly luring unemployed youths and sending them to Chinese-operated cybercrime rings in countries such as Cambodia, Myanmar, and Thailand.

A cybercrime team of the Gurugram Police has arrested a man for allegedly killing his colleague 17 years back in September 2007 inside a school in Sector-31.

The US offered a reward of up to $15 million for information on the leaders of the notorious cybercrime group Lockbit on Wednesday as police in Ukraine announced the arrest of a father-son duo alleged to have been involved with the gang.

Uttar Pradesh Police in a joint operation have arrested three persons, including a Samajwadi Party leader from Mathura, accused of running an alleged cybercrime racket under the guise of a public service centre.

The Gujarat police have arrested a man who allegedly posed as an official from the chief minister's office (CMO) and asked Jamnagar superintendent of police to release an accused arrested in a cybercrime case, an official said on Sunday.

The CBI has booked five people for allegedly posing as Microsoft tech support and siphoning off USD 400,000 (Rs 3.37 crore as per current rates) retirement funds of a US citizen, officials said on Friday.

Nigerian nationals and Chinese gangs are allegedly trapping innocent people on the pretext of offering money for performing easy tasks online or on the promise of lucrative returns by investing in cryptocurrencies, said a police officer.

Intelligence Fusion & Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit of the Delhi police unit has registered a case against a cyber crime con for allegedly cheating a woman doctor of Rs 4.5 crore in the national capital, officials said on Saturday.

A software engineer working with an IT company here was allegedly duped of around Rs 42 lakh by scammers who lured him into earning handsome money by liking some videos, police said on Saturday.