Cybercrime Trends

A Lumen Database filing shows Google was asked to kill Gmail accounts used to impersonate Fubon Group chairman Cai Mingzhong and a Taichung mutual-aid chief. The pitch is almost polite: create a chat group, send the QR code, then “advance” a company payment. Police say one earlier run of the same script cost a firm about NT$17 million — and Taiwan’s anti-fraud law is now pulling Google into the fight on two fronts, mailboxes and ads.

Technology has made cybercrime investigation extremely difficult. A successful investigator needs to master multiple skillset to compete with the criminal's anti-forensic & detection methods

A trading dashboard shows a profit, the withdrawal fails, and then comes a demand for a fee, a tax or a margin top-up to release it. No SEBI-registered intermediary ever asks you to send money to free your own funds. How the advance-fee trap works, and how to verify a broker's payment details in 60 seconds.

Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Prashant Chaudhary confirmed that Sandeep Kumar had earlier worked as a tele-caller for similar fake aviation-job operations and had previously run a fraudulent venture called “Pragati Airways” before partnering with Akhil Kumar.

The session was organized by Belagavi City police in association with Shreshta IT Technologies Pvt. Ltd. on the theme "Electronic Evidence: From First Response to Courtroom Proof" and was attended by over 40 senior police officers.

Investment / Trading scams are one of the most damaging cyber financial fraud globally. The gang used a homemade fake application called “FX Trade” to lure people with promises of high returns on investments.

Cyber Centre of Excellence, Gandhinagar, cracks pan-India racket that defrauded citizens through fake "digital arrests" and laundered proceeds into cryptocurrency routed to Chinese handlers.

Somnath • Dwarka • Tirupati • Shirdi • Rishikesh • Haridwar • Katra • Ujjain • Puri & more — Gujarat Police Crush Nationwide Pilgrimage Booking Scam

Telangana led the rankings with near-complete green performance across most metrics, followed closely by Maharashtra, while several others such as Puducherry, Ladakh, and Uttarakhand also featured among the top performers, highlighting varied progress in building a coordinated national response to cyber threats.

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy warmly congratulated the Telangana Police, the Cyber Security Bureau, and every officer involved for securing the top national rank in cybercrime performance at the PMO’s PRAGATI Review.

Impersonation cases are the most common type of cases in any investigation of Law Enforcement Agencies across the world. The article provides step by step guide on the investigation.

WhatsApp Account takeover, followed by cheating is one of the most common modus operandi across India. Device Binding regulations will be a game-changer in preventing these type of cases from occuring.