Panaji: Goa Police have intensified their crackdown on cybercriminals this year, blocking 507 fraudulent websites and 767 scam-linked mobile numbers in 2025, officials said on Saturday.
Superintendent of Police (CyberCrime) Rahul Gupta said on Saturday that the department initiated 660 takedown requests against various online fraud platforms. These included 507 websites, 151 social media accounts, and two malicious mobile applications found to be involved in digital frauds, he said.
Gupta said that the blocked platforms were linked to a range of cyber offences such as fake parcel delivery scams, online investment frauds, sextortion and dating app blackmail operations, impersonation of government authorities—commonly known as “digital arrest” scams—and fake hotel booking portals aimed at deceiving tourists.
The highest number of takedowns was registered in May 2025, when authorities disabled 258 fraudulent websites, followed by 78 in January and 72 in June, he said.
Gupta stated that these actions were carried out with support from the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen cyber hygiene and disrupt fraud networks at the source.
