Scammers use fear and urgency to con people using ‘digital arrest’, online scams: Cyber advisory

New Delhi: Indian cyber-security agency CERT-In on Sunday shared a list that talks about more than a dozen ways in which online scams are being perpetrated by fraudsters in the country, including “digital arrest” to dupe people by stealing their money and private data. The public advisory has been accessed by PTI and it came on a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi too cautioned people against such frauds in his monthly “Mann ki Baat” radio broadcast.