India, April 11 -- The Delhi Police's Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations unit has dismantled a module of an international cybercrime syndicate with links to Cambodia and other Southeast Asian countries, arresting two men from East Delhi who helped foreign fraudsters impersonate law enforcement officials and trap victims in so-called "digital arrest" scams.

The arrests were made during Operation CyHawk 4.0, conducted on April 6 and 7, after investigators tracked an illegal SIM box setup to a premises in GD Colony, Mayur Vihar Phase III. The technology at the heart of the racket was a 32-slot active SIM box, a device that routes international VoIP calls into Indian mobile networks, allowing overseas fraudsters to reach victims on...