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Scammers typically contact victims by way of telephone or video calls, claiming to be from companies just like the police or cybercrime models, and intimidate them into transferring cash to keep away from authorized penalties. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto
Cyber funding scams entails on-line fraud the place criminals deceive people into investing cash in pretend or misleading alternatives. These schemes typically lure victims with guarantees of terribly excessive returns, generally claiming income over 100 occasions the preliminary funding — an consequence that’s nearly unattainable.
Common forms of cyber funding scams embody inventory market funding fraud, on-line buying and selling scams, foreign currency trading schemes, WhatsApp-based buying and selling group frauds, matrimonial funding scams, multi-level advertising and marketing (MLM) funding scams, and cryptocurrency funding scams.
The upward development is evident when evaluating the variety of funding scams reported between January and August in 2024 and 2025. In 2024, NCRP (National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal) recorded 11,024 funding scams, whereas in the identical interval of 2025, the reported circumstances rose to 13,287.
Digital Arrest Scam comes second within the variety of cyber fraud circumstances reported. Scammers typically contact victims by way of telephone or video calls, claiming to be from companies just like the police or cybercrime models, and intimidate them into transferring cash to keep away from authorized penalties. In 2024 till August, the Digital Arrest scams reported in NCRP are 2,762 whereas in 2025 for a similar interval the numbers reported are 4,439.
Additional Director General of Police, Cyber Crime Wing Sandeep Mittal advised The Hindu, ”Analysis of reported circumstances reveal that undue need and greed to make fast cash in a short while obfuscates rational considering and customary sense leading to lack of big sums. As the cash is transferred over a interval, the complete cash shortly exits the banking ecosystem, coupled with late reporting, thus making it unattainable to recuperate the misplaced cash. Tamil Nadu Police has flagged the problem with varied stakeholders for devising technological options to the problems.”
As cybercrime remains to be a comparatively new idea to many, a big part of the general public initially hesitated to file complaints. By actively elevating consciousness in regards to the significance of reporting incidents whereas additionally guaranteeing confidentiality and anonymity, Cyber Crime Wing has inspired extra victims to return ahead and register their circumstances by way of 1930 or NCRP.
On common, the 1930 Control Room now handles 1,600 to 1,800 calls per day, whereas in 2024 the day by day quantity ranged between 600 and 800 calls. The knowledge from 2022 to 2025 displays a gentle enhance within the variety of registered complaints, which is a optimistic indicator of rising public belief and consciousness within the system. It is anticipated that, over time, this development will attain a saturation level, after which the speed of recent complaints will decline considerably, stated Mr. Mittal.
Published – September 14, 2025 05:30 am IST
