Digital arrest scam: Alert SBI staff saves senior citizen in Hyderabad from ₹13 lakh fraud

An incident in Hyderabad has come to light where vigilant employees at a State Bank of India (SBI) branch saved a senior citizen from being conned ₹13 lakh in a scam involving a so-called ‘digital arrest’.

According to a report by NDTV, fraudsters targeted a 61-year-old child specialist by telling him that he was under digital arrest and must not tell anyone about it.