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Digital arrest scams cost Indians ₹4,057 crore since 2022
Indians lost ₹4,057 crore to digital arrest scams since 2022. Fraudsters impersonate CBI, ED, RBI officials. No legal basis for digital arrest. Report to NCRP.
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Indians lost ₹4,057.7 crore to digital arrest scams between 2022 and May 2026, according to government data cited by a Firstpost report. The 2,97,727 complaints filed over that period make this one of the country's most damaging cyber fraud categories.
Fraudsters impersonate officials from the CBI, ED, RBI or the Finance Ministry. They tell victims they are implicated in money laundering, international financial crimes or illegal parcel cases. Victims are kept on video calls for hours and pressured to transfer money for “verification” or “clearance.”