The South Cyber Police of the Mumbai Crime Branch have arrested six persons from Maharashtra, Delhi, and Bihar in connection with a fake identity cyber fraud case in which a company was allegedly duped of more than Rs 10.40 crore through a WhatsApp impersonation scam. The police have frozen Rs 5.63 crore of the defrauded amount and launched a multi-state investigation to trace the main accused and recover the remaining money.

According to the police, the fraud took place between June 3 and 15, when a 63-year-old company employee received WhatsApp messages from a mobile number displaying the company director's profile picture. The sender allegedly impersonated the director, claimed to be busy in a meeting, and instructed the employee to urgently transfer funds to multiple bank accounts.