Government’s cyber-security agency CERT-In issues advisory on how to fight ‘digital arrest’

Government cyber-security agency CERT-In on Sunday issued an advisory flagging several ways in which frauds are duping people to steal money and private data.

The advisory was issued on a day Prime Minister Narendra Modi sounded a caution against scams such as “digital arrest” in his Mann Ki Baat radio broadcast, clarifying that no government agency threatens people over the phone or demands money.