Topic
Online and cyber fraud against Indian consumers. Report it at cybercrime.gov.in or on helpline 1930.
15 storiesLatest 9 Oct 2026, 12:30 IST
Enforcement/
Oquilia's enforcement tracker recorded 12 official actions on digital lending between July and September. RBI's penalties fell mostly on lenders that took more from borrowers than they were entitled to; the apps that threaten borrowers were removed through takedown notices known only from press reports.
Enforcement
The CBI has arrested an Airtel area distributor in Vaishali, Bihar, over SIM cards it says were issued fraudulently for a SIM Box operation linked to at least 73 cybercrime cases.
Regulation
Almost everything about recovering money lost to online fraud is decided in the first hour, before the transfer is broken up and moved onward through mule accounts. Most people spend that hour on the phone to a call centre. Here is the order that actually works.
Enforcement
The CBI searched ten sites in Punjab and Delhi and arrested four people over a Mohali call centre it says posed as Microsoft and US agencies to extort American victims.
Enforcement
The CBI says it searched ten locations in Punjab and Delhi and arrested four people over a tech-support fraud and extortion racket that targeted US nationals. The allegations are untested.
Enforcement
The CBI has registered a cyber-fraud case and arrested five of six accused over an illegal Igatpuri call centre that allegedly impersonated Amazon support to cheat US and Canadian citizens.
Enforcement
The Supreme Court has directed the RBI and all states to set up temporary debit holds, grievance redressal and money restoration measures to curb digital arrest cyber-fraud.
Enforcement
In a live suo motu proceeding, the Supreme Court has directed the CBI to lead digital arrest scam investigations and allowed authorities to freeze linked accounts, per interim orders dated 1 December 2025.
Enforcement
The CBI has registered a case against 37 accused and arrested 13 across seven states in Operation Chakra-V, alleging a mule-account network used by cyber-fraud syndicates; the probe continues.
Enforcement
The CBI's Operation Chakra-V has run a sequence of nationwide searches and arrests since April 2025 against digital-arrest cyber-fraud and mule-account networks. The investigations are continuing.
Enforcement
The CBI has filed a series of chargesheets in 'digital arrest' cyber fraud cases under Operation Chakra-V, alleging senior citizens were coerced into transfers, including one of about Rs 23 crore.
Enforcement
The CBI has filed a chargesheet against 17 accused, including four foreign nationals, and 58 companies, alleging a transnational network routed more than Rs 1,000 crore through mule accounts.
Enforcement
The ED provisionally attached about Rs 1.76 crore of mule-account funds in the Rs 7 crore 'digital arrest' of Vardhman chairman S.P. Oswal; a High Court denied one accused bail.
Startups
Google has sued a Chinese network whose $200-a-month kit and Gemini-built fake sites hit hundreds of thousands of victims. India, drowning in Android, has most to lose.
Startups
Google's new fake call detection verifies the device, not the voice, taking aim at deepfake impersonation fraud. For India, the world's voice-scam epicentre, the catch is who gets it first.
