{
  "id": 7263904,
  "title": "Mumbai Cybercrime Surge: 3,689 Online Fraud Cases Reported In 7 Months, Only 847 Detected",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/mumbai-cybercrime-surge-3-689-online-fraud-cases-reported-in-7-months",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-14T06:31:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/mumbai-cybercrime-surge-3689-online-fraud-cases-reported-in-7-months-only-847-detected"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "In a worrying trend, Mumbai has registered 3,689 online fraud cases this year so far around 75% of the 4,825 cases reported in 2025. The low detection rate is more alarming. A ₹2.55 crore digital arrest scam, a ₹74.26 lakh online share-investment fraud and a cybercrime mule-account racket involving suspected transactions of around ₹350 crore are among recent cases highlighting the growing scale…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}