Cyber criminals employing innovative means to cheat
From impersonating CBI officers to 'pig butchering'
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New Delhi: As cyber crimes sweep the country, the unscrupulous scamsters behind them have been employing various innovative means to defraud their victims.
From impersonating law enforcement officials to engaging in elaborate "pig butchering" schemes, the fraudsters have left no stone unturned in their pursuit of ill-gotten gains.
Among the rising scams is the notorious romance scam, where criminals manipulate emotions to extract significant sums of money from their victims.
In a breakthrough in January, the Delhi Police's IFSO unit successfully arrested four people, including a woman, hailing from West Bengal.
The culprits had been operating a sophisticated scam, posing as officials from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and exploiting innocent people with a fabricated story involving the Mumbai Customs Department.
The arrested accused were found to have engaged in a particularly insidious variant of the scam, informing their victims that a parcel in their name had been seized by Mumbai Customs, allegedly carrying MDMA narcotics drugs.
Exploiting the fear and panic induced by these false claims, the fraudsters then proceeded to blackmail their victims, demanding substantial sums of money in exchange for avoiding legal consequences.
