Cyber Crime rises in Hyderabad in the middle of Lockdown
by -Pallabi Paul-
Hydrabad – cyber crime rises in hyderabad in the amid of lockdown .As Cyber crime sleuthing of Hydrabad Police Commissionerate received on 14th of April 2020 ,and stated that has received almost 160 cases since the starting of lockdown due to Covid- 19.On tuesday,a man who is the fraudster has acted as the wine shop representative has siphoned off Rs 92000 from the bank account of a employee of a private firm ,on the ground that he will deliver wine bottles.
During the period,many complaints received, mostly the victims were the prey to the fraudster posing as PayTM,liquor shops,courier company representative and armed forces and paramilitary personnel trying to sell the vehicles.An accountant of Sultan Bazar,Hydrabad reached the Cyber Crime sleuths and reported a complaint against the Cyber offence alleging that a fraudster has siphoned off 92,000 from his bank account by posing as a liquid shops representative.
The victim searched on the internet regarding this for home delivery of liquor and found a phone number of Bagga vines promising to deliver liquor in Hyderabad.The victim attracted with this and dailed number in order to receive home delivery of liquor,moreover the fraudster posing as a representative of liquor shop taken credit card details of the victim as well as the OTP number to transfer a huge amount of Rd 92000 to multiple e wallet said Cyber crime ACP KVM Prasad .
Not only this ,but a retired employee of who was waiting to receive a parcel,searched on the internet for customer care number of the courier service and the fraudster posing as employee of courier service asked him to fill up the details of his debit and credit card of the concerned retired employee in Google form sent through SMS and he lost Rs.90000 said ACP .
A stock broker from the city who was in desire of a fancy mobile phone lost Rs 55,000 to a fraudsterand a private employee also lost Rs 32,000 to the fraudster in the guise of KYC update for his PAYTM account.”The accused made him install Quick viewers remote desktop app and siphoned off the money from his account” state the Police
A constable lost Rs 36,000 to a fraudster posing as a CISF official on a e classifieds website to sell the bike and a private employee too lost Rs,32,000 posing as a Army man on the same portal offering to sell the bike said the Police.
Cyber fraud is rapidly increasing day by day,and the cyber criminals make well pre plan before committing offence in order to get escape from law enforcement agencies after committing crime.People need to very much careful while disclosing their credit and debit card details to unknown website or person.
Situation like these gives opportunity to cyber criminals to undertake such activities since most of the focus is on the pandemic. But is is important we keep our ears and eyes open and be very cautious of such crimes all the time.