The Indian government has blocked over 87,000 WhatsApp and Skype accounts linked to the digital arrest scam. According to the officials, fraudsters were using the platform to reach out to people ...

The central government's ‘Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre’ (I4C) has identified and blocked more than 3,962 Skype IDs and 83,668 WhatsApp accounts used by the scammers for Digital Arrest.

BLOOMINGTON, IN- An Indian student at Indiana University Bloomington lost $5,000 to a “digital arrest” scam last month after fraudsters posed as federal and local law enforcement officers.