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The Salem District Cyber Crime police, successful 2025, arrested a full of 36 persons for cyber fraud.
The fig of cases related to cyber transgression is expanding each year in the district. Even though the constabulary are conducting consciousness programmes and issuing caution regarding advertisements, the fig of radical cheated by online fraudsters continues to summation each year.
In 2025, the Salem District Cyber Crime constabulary received a full of 3,242 complaints regarding cyber fraud (financial and non-financial complaints), which is doubly the complaints received successful 2024 (1,882 complaints).
The First Information Report (FIR) was registered successful 45 cases and the Community Service Register (CSR) was provided for 3,197 complaints. In 2024, the Cyber Crime constabulary registered 56 FIRs and provided CSR successful 1,826 cases. The full magnitude mislaid successful cyber fraud successful 2025 was ₹20 crore, which is ₹7.20 crore much than the magnitude mislaid successful 2024, (₹12.80 crore).
In 2025, done assorted actions, the Cyber Crime Police recovered ₹1.40 crore and froze ₹6.20 crore. In 2024, the constabulary recovered ₹1.01 crore and froze ₹10.20 crore.
In summation to this, successful 2025, the constabulary arrested 36 persons related to cyber frauds. Around 747 mislaid mobile phones were besides recovered.
Officials attached to the Cyber Crime Police said that astir of the complaints successful 2025 were related to occupation fraud and assuring to supply much involvement for investment. In astir of these cases, the victims were highly educated. In 2025, the constabulary besides conducted 60 consciousness programmes successful schools and colleges. Officials added that if radical mislaid their wealth owed to cyber fraud, they should lodge a ailment immediately, which volition assistance successful freezing the wealth oregon deleting the morphed pictures connected the internet.
