- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in India has launched a major crackdown on cyber criminals, conducting searches in 76 locations across the country.
- This operation, known as ‘Operation Chakra-2’, was initiated after the registration of five separate cases of cyber-enabled financial fraud, including a ₹100-crore crypto scam.
- One of the cases under investigation involves a cryptocurrency fraud scheme that resulted in a loss of over ₹100 crore to Indian victims.
- The fraudsters operated under the guise of a fake cryptocurrency mining operation, deceiving unsuspecting Indian citizens.
- The CBI stated that the cases were registered based on critical inputs provided by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).
- Among the cases, two were registered based on complaints from Amazon and Microsoft, where the accused ran call centers impersonating technical support representatives of these companies to target foreign nationals.
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