The country's fraud capital Jamtara, a district in Jharkhand, which rose to notoriety in 2017 for vishing, appears to be having it rough with local law forces. Vishing is a crime where a phone is used to attempt to scam users into surrendering private information.

Statistics from the state's cyber crime cell have revealed that Maharashtra, which stood third in the list of cyber vishing crimes - after Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh - with 2,443 registered cyber fraud cases in 2017, has seen a drastic drop this year. Until May 2018, the state only registered 900 cases. "We are yet to compile the data of the remaining months, but there has been a remarkable decrease in the number of cases registered in cards, banking and investment sectors," said Dr Balsingh Rajput, superintendent of police, cyber cell. He said "heavy crackdown on the scamsters" by the Jharkhand Police has not only led to a sharp decline in the crime in Mumbai, but across the country.