Archive · 13 Sep 2025
Hyderabad Police Combat Online Scams, Issue Warnings
Some people in Hyderabad were tricked by online scams.
In one case, a man lost a lot of money after being promised marriage by someone using fake photos.
Police caught some of the people involved.
In another case, a tailor almost lost money after installing a bad file on his phone.
The police stopped the money transfer in time.
The police warn everyone to be careful about who they talk to online and not to download things from unknown sources.
A tailor in Hyderabad narrowly avoided losing ₹1.18 lakh to an APK fraud.
Fraudsters accessed the tailor's phone through a malicious APK file.
Police swiftly blocked fraudulent transactions saving ₹95,239.
A man was defrauded of ₹25 lakh in an online matrimony scam.
Police arrested two individuals and are searching for a third in connection to the marriage scam.
- Who
- Victims in Hyderabad
- What
- Online scams, including matrimony and APK fraud.
- When
- September 2025 (APK Fraud), March 2023 (Matrimony Scam).
- Where
- Hyderabad, India.
- Why
- Fraudsters used deceptive methods to steal money from victims.
- Victim of APK Fraud
- 48-year-old tailor
- Amount Saved in APK Fraud
- ₹1.18 lakh
- Victim of Matrimony Scam
- Man from Hyderabad
- Amount Swindled in Matrimony Scam
- ₹25 lakh
- Accused Arrested
- Aneesa Mohmad Yaseen Hundekar, Mohammed Abdul Aamer
- Accused on the Run
- Zohar Fathima
- Modus Operandi
- Fake profiles, malicious APK files