CHENNAI: Probing a complaint from a 70-year-old city woman, who was cheated of Rs 2.49 crore in an online trading scam, Chennai Police's cybercrime wing arrested two persons who supplied fraudsters with the mule accounts.

The elderly woman was induced through WhatsApp to install a fraudulent trading application named HEM-securities. The fraudsters lured her by showing fabricated profits and persuaded her to transfer large sums of money to unlock these profits.

"Between December 2024 and January 2025, she transferred Rs 2.49 crores in nine transactions to eight different bank accounts," a police official said.

When she attempted to withdraw, her requests were blocked; instead, further deposits were demanded. That is when she began to suspect that she was being taken for a ride and filed

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