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From January to July 2025, Karnataka quietly bled Rs 861 crore to cybercrooks. That’s money enough to build hundreds of schools or fund entire district health budgets.
This vanishing instead into a maze of fake links, cloned voices and phantom bank accounts. Officials say this seven-month haul is already a third of what the state lost in all of 2024, proving that the scam economy is not just alive but aggressively evolving.