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Hans India
17-05-2025
- Hans India
Fifteen complaints just in weekdays: SP Akhil Mahajan
Adilabad: Cyber criminals are using new methods to cheat people in the present society said superintendent of police Akhil Mahajan. He said that cyber crimes can be stopped only with the awareness and alertness of people. He said that at present, the APK files on social media on Telegram on WhatsApp are like mobile control in the hands of cybercriminals and vigilance is the main tool to prevent them. If you are cheated by fraudsters, the first duty is to immediately complain to the National Cyber Crime Helpline Number 1930 or the cybercrime website. He said that 15 complaints have been received in just a week days. across the district, especially in the wake of new methods being used by cybercrime criminals such as investment fraud, loan fraud, UPI fraud, APK files, fake websites, stock market fraud, etc. Giving an example of the method used by cybercrime criminals, he said that investment rods typically show more money on their own websites than they have invested. In the limits Of Adilabad 1-Town police station, a person was sent a link through Telegram telling the victim that he could earn money by doing business and investment through WhatsApp, and he was told that he should give ratings to hotels, believing that the victim paid about Rs 40,000 through UPI payment. In another incident, cyber criminals took the details of the account from the victim and stole Rs. 21,000 from the victim under the pretext of providing financial assistance to a person in Bela Mandal using the name of a private individual who is popular among the people. Similarly, a report was submitted on behalf of the district police to Instagram with a complaint that a fake account was created on social media Instagram in Adilabad Rural and the person's name was being harassed by making video calls and messages to family members and friends and well-wishers. A person from Jainath Mandal, who had received a loan through Mudra Finance, made a video call and informed the victim to pay some money in advance, and about Rs.22,150 was stolen from him.
Time of India
30-04-2025
- Time of India
Fraudster hacks woman's email, dupes her of 6.1 lakh in Malad
Mumbai: A 30-year-old woman's email was hacked by a fraudster, her bank OTPs accessed and her credit card misused to the tune of Rs 6.16 lakh. The woman told the police that she had never used her credit card for any transactions nor had she shared OTPs with anyone. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now The Malad Police registered an FIR and are probing further. The woman lives in Malad with her family and works in a private firm. She uses four credit cards. The incident dates back to July 2024 but an FIR was registered on April 29 after preliminary inquiries. On July 21 last year, the woman was home when, around 1pm, she received an email about one of her credit cards being used for a transaction of Rs 50,900 on a credit card payment portal. Shortly afterwards, she received an email about another credit card being used for a transaction of Rs 99,764 on a credit card payment portal. She received a string of emails thereafter about each of her four credit cards being used. Some of the cards were used for buying shoes and others were used on credit card payment portals. She lost Rs 6.16 lakh collectively. The woman told investigators she was taken aback as nobody had called her to ask for OTPs nor shared any fraudulent link with her. She added that neither she nor her family members had used the credit cards for any online transactions. She said she hadn't shared her credit card information with anyone either. She tried reaching out to the four banks after the fraud, but did not get a satisfactory response from them. She then lodged a complaint on the National Cyber Crime portal. She suspected that her email had been hacked and the OTPs accessed by fraudsters. She then decided to approach the police.
