As of May 17, Telangana has blocked 137 Skype IDs involved in various cases of blackmail, extortion and digital scams by cyber criminals posing as officials from the Enforcement Agencies, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Narcotics Department and other enforcement agencies. This comes in the backdrop of the ongoing crackdown by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) in which over 1,000 Skype IDs and numerous mule accounts and mobile numbers have been blocked.
Around 1,500 WhatsApp and virtual numbers and over 500 mule accounts in three hotspots - Hyderabad, parts of Nirmal, and Cyberabad - are also under the radar of the Telangana State Cyber Security Bureau (TSCSB) with many already blocked, data shared by senior officials in the department revealed.
