India, March 14 -- Minister of State (MoS) for home affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar has informed the Parliament that Indians lost INR 1,935.51 Cr to digital arrest scams in 2024.

In a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha yesterday, the MoS said that 1.23 Lakh complaints related to such frauds were lodged on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal.

MoS Kumar added that 17,718 incidents of digital arrest scams were reported in the first two months of 2025 itself, which defrauded the Indian public of INR 210.21 Cr.

For the uninitiated, a digital arrest fraud involves a malicious actor impersonating a law enforcement official and defrauding the victim of money by way of intimidation.

Meanwhile, 60,676 incidents (involving an amount of ...