India, Oct. 12 -- Sangam Yadav was reel-watching on Instagram when an advertisement for some basic work-from-home jobs stopped his thumb. He ended up in a group on the private messaging app Telegram, where a woman posing as an employee of a company offered him paid online tasks. It was simple work, and he was paid too, before the whole thing turned on its head.

The Delhi Police Cyber Crime team has arrested a man person from Jagraon town in Punjab's Ludhiana district after busting a cryptocurrency racket that duped people on the pretext of offering work-from-home opportunities, news agency ANI has reported.

This man, Sukhpreet Singh, 25, was the "woman employee" who was giving work at first to Sangam Yadav and others. The Delhi Police r...