Bengaluru digital arrest scam: Two women forced to strip, held hostage for nine hours by fraudsters

Bengaluru: In another case of ‘digital arrest’, two women were held hostage on a video call for nearly nine hours and forced to strip naked under the pretext of an “online medical examination” by cyber fraudsters posing as police officers, police said on Wednesday.

The women were also “threatened with the nude images and videos recorded during the so-called medical examination,” which the fraudsters claimed was necessary to identify birthmarks and moles, police said.