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In just four months of 2024, people in India have lost Rs 120 crore to a scam called digital arrest..
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"There is nothing like digital arrest in our law, this is just fraud, deceit, lies, a gang of criminals and those who are doing this are enemies of society," said Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his latest 'Mann ki Baat' broadcast..
It was in 2024 that thousands of cases of digital arrests came to light.. Recently, Richa Mishra, a journalist from Aaj Tak, India Today's sister media outlet, received a call from a courier company claiming her Aadhaar number was linked to a parcel containing drugs..
An elderly man in Ahmedabad was also tricked into transferring Rs 1.26 crore in a digital arrest scam wherein the scammers impersonated high-ranking officials, including the Chief Justice of India...
