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online scam

News Reports

Mumbai Police arrest mastermind of dating app scam from Delhi, Ankur Meena used attractive women to lure men to posh pubs to loot them

OpIndia Staff - 12 October, 2024

The Mumbai Police on Thursday arrested 26-year-old Ankur Meena from Delhi in connection with a dating app scam exposed two months ago.

News Reports

Myanmar arrests and deports more than 40,000 Chinese nationals associated with unlawful online scam groups

OpIndia Staff - 26 December, 2023

The Chinese nationals were taken into custody and then deported from the northern Shan state of Myanmar over the course of three months, from early September to mid-December.

World

Online scammers include ‘hundreds of thousands’ of victims, trafficked and tortured by criminal gangs to run fraud rackets, says UN report

OpIndia Staff - 30 August, 2023

A new UN report has been estimated that over 120,000 people in Myanmar, and at least 100,000 in Cambodia, have been trafficked and forced to run online scam rackets.