New Delhi, July 15 -- Indians lost around Rs.7,000 crore to online scams in the first five months of 2025, an estimate by Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has revealed.

More than half of this amount was lost to scamsters operating out of Cambodia and other Southeast Asian countries such as Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand, according to the report in the Indian Express

The analysis of the data compiled by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), a unit under MHA, revealed that these scams are often run from high-security locations, reportedly controlled by Chinese operators, where trafficked people, including Indians, are forced to work, the Indian Express report said.

On an average, the scams led to A loss of around Rs.1,000 ...