Delhi: The juvenile used to chat with a girl on Instagram and he got infatuated with the online friend but later he was shocked after knowing the girl is actually a male.
These include romance scams, phone scams, mass-mailing fraud schemes, and tech-support fraud schemes.
Cybercrime: Over 16 lakh cybercrime incidents have been reported in the country in the last three years, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
Seeing a rise in cybercrime-related cases, the police administration brought the scheme so that maximum number of personnel pay heed to learning the nitty-gritty of modern technology.
PwC's 'Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey 2022' report has highlighted the flip side of digitalization in which non-tech-friendly person easily fall prey to fraud incidents.
Cyber fraud news: The state cyber department has received several such complaints and also of people being duped under the pretext of electricity bills, through loan apps and online marketplaces, an official from the department said.
During investigation, police obtained record from the e-wallet application and identified the beneficiary.
The accused had made fake profiles on Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms by posing as a woman, a senior police official said.
Based on the technical details brought out during investigation, it was also found that a large number of people across the country have become victims of these fake websites.
The State Bank of India has warned customers of instances where fraudsters have duped people with KYC verification.
The State Bank of India recently warned the customers regarding bogus apps that could lead to massive losses if installed without due verification.
A 32-year-old man in Nagpur in Maharashtra has lost Rs 1.81 lakh moments after he shared the OTP for purchasing medicines online over the phone, police said on Tuesday.
Last weekend, the SSST authorities received complaints that some unknown persons were allegedly posing as the temple representatives and asking for donations via social media, providing bank details and other things, said the trust's CEO Kanhuraj Bagate.
As per the complaint, Sahoo put up an advertisement on the digital marketplace, Krishify to sell his cow on March 11 when the scamster posing as a potential buyer duped him.
A section officer in the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) lodged a complaint against an e-commerce website for allegedly sending him a detergent soap instead of a mobile phone, police said on Sunday.
An 18-year-old boy allegedly committed suicide after he lost Rs 15,000 to an online shopping site while ordering a smartphone for his Class XII studies, Chandrapur police in Maharashtra said on Saturday.
A South-Delhi based fashion blogger recently woke up to a rude shock when she learnt that her Instagram account had been hacked and that the hackers were based in eastern Europe.
The screen-sharing fraud is a type of a banking fraud wherein a hacker impersonates as a bank employee and asks you to download a screen-sharing app for remote access.
A businessman from suburban Kandivali has allegedly lost over Rs 32 lakh in an online fraud, police said on Friday. As per the police complaint, the trader received an email from a Ghana-based medical research company in June asking him to procure an organic chemical liquid, which was only available in India and assured him a good deal.
Amid ongoing phishing or cyberattack, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday warned citizens of fraudulent transactions. Due to coronavirus lockdown, online banking has seen a massive boom as it becomes the major source of carrying financial transaction.
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