The operation of over 70 illegal money lending apps that were used by anonymous operators to steal personal data from borrowers and blackmail them in case of deferred payments has been taken down by the Kerala Police Cyber wing.
These illegal apps, earlier available on Google Play store, have looted many underprivileged families that looked for easy loans with minimal formalities.
A few more suspicious apps involved in the illegal financial business have also been identified for removal. Probe is still under way to zero in on suspected operators behind the trade who are accused of abetting unnatural death of some of the borrowers from Kerala.
