What is Digital Arrest? In this, the police does not take anyone to the police station
What is digital arrest: Earlier, criminals used to rob people by using knives, guns and pistols. If the person being robbed did not resist, his life was saved. As times changed, the ways of criminals also changed. Here we are talking about a crime called digital arrest, whose victims are not only losing their accounts but also their lives.
Whether we talk about the cases of Agra and Indore in the last 72 hours or dozens of such incidents that have come to light earlier, the only thing that was common in every case was the 'psychology of fear'. You can call it a method of crime in which the police does not take anyone to the police station, but cyber criminals harass you mentally and harm you financially through your phone.
In Agra, an attempt was made to digitally arrest a teacher by saying that her daughter was trapped in a sex racket. Hearing this, a mother panicked and died. Digital arrest is a new method of cyber fraud in which the fraud makes an audio or video call. He confines the victim to their homes by pretending to be a law enforcement officer. During this, the victim is made to sit for hours. The criminal harms you from hundreds of kilometers away.
30 thousand crore fraud in one year
Understand how dangerous this trap is from the statistics. More than 65000 cases have come to light in the last ten years. In which more than four lakh crores have been defrauded... In 2023 alone, Rs 30,000 crores have been defrauded. People are being cheated in this way from Meerut to Mauritius.
October 2024: A digital arrest was made in Dehradun in which a fraud of Rs 43 lakh was committed in connection with sending several banned medicines through courier.
September 2024: Retired officer in Ujjain received a call, two and a half crore rupees were taken by threatening him with porn.
July 2024: Woman doctor duped of 60 lakhs in porn video scam in Noida, digitally arrested for 20 hours.
1 March 2024: Cyber thugs digitally arrest a female engineer from Noida for 7 hours.
Tips to avoid digital arrest
If you receive any such call, be careful and alert. As soon as you suspect something, disconnect the call immediately and call the police from the same or another number. So that the plans of fraudsters who are plotting to usurp your hard earned money in every corner can be foiled. Because digital 'fraudsters' will call you and tell you about your mistake. After this, they will inform you about digital arrest. If this happens, seek help from the police immediately and do not download the mentioned app. Format your phone immediately. Do not give any secret or personal information at all.