A front-page report in this newspaper rang the alarm bells, with cyber police admitting that the fake online stock market investment apps scam is well on its way to being the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on our shores. This, when we have already seen multi-thousand-crore scams like the like-and-earn scandal, and other assorted cons making millions victims.

The police told this newspaper that while the cyber cell is inundated with several hundred complaints, many more are still flooding the city’s 90-odd local police stations. Worse, they are unsure of the number of people yet to muster the courage to come forward and lodge complaints out of shame.