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The ‘Tarantino’ fraud: Anatomy of a digital arrest, from a Gurugram home to a tiny Hyderabad bank

The ‘Tarantino’ fraud: Anatomy of a digital arrest, from a Gurugram home to a tiny Hyderabad bank

The ‘Tarantino’ fraud: Anatomy of a digital arrest, from a Gurugram home to a tiny Hyderabad bank


Speaking at a conference on 10 February, Union home minister Amit Shah said that between January 2020 and 30 November 2025, the reporting portal of the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre was accessed over 230 million times. As of 30 November 2025, more than 8.2 million cybercrime-related complaints had been registered on the portal, of which 184,000 were converted into first information report (FIRs), and a large number of complaints were resolved. Of the total fraud amount of 20,000 crore, about 8,189 crore were either frozen or returned to the victims.

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