Cybersecurity agency warns public of ‘Digital Arrest’, other online scams

NEW DELHI: The cybersecurity agency under the Ministry of Information Technology (IT), CERT-IN, issued an advisory to the general public on Sunday, outlining more than a dozen types of online scams being perpetrated by fraudsters in the country. Among these scams is a tactic called “digital arrest,” where scammers exploit people by stealing money and private data.

The advisory, a copy of which is with this newspaper, was issued on the same day Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the issue in his monthly “Mann ki Baat” radio programme.