"cyber-fraudsters"

Two persons were duped by fraudsters on the pretext of huge profits in online investment. In the first case, a man from Tallabkatta in the Old City was duped of around Rs.11 lakh.

Hyderabad: Cyber fraudsters are now hacking WhatsApp mobile numbers of Non Resident Indians (NRIs) and sending requests for money to people on their contact lists in the guise of medical emergencies and other needs. According to the police, this new way of cheating by impersonation and fake WhatsApp accounts was becoming very common, with the […]

Hyderabad: A businessman from Mehdipatnam in the city lost Rs.1 crore to cyber fraudsters who conned him into making investments in cryptocurrency trade. According to the police, the victim noticed that his mobile number was added to a WhatsApp group that had several people who are reportedly dealing in cryptocurrency and making huge profits. After […]

Hyderabad: The Tukaram Gate police arrested 8 persons from Maharashtra who were allegedly cheating the public on the pretext of selling electronic gadgets at cheap prices by advertising on social media platforms. The arrested persons were Nilesh (24), Satyam Kalyan (20), Vinod Parte (22), Ashutosh Talpe (23), Pratik (21), Omkar Bhalchim (21), Ganesh Manohar (21) […]

Hyderabad: Four Delhi-based persons, allegedly cyber fraudsters who duped two job aspirants on the pretext of arranging jobs in corporate companies, were arrested by the Hyderabad Cybercrime police on Monday. The police seized computers, laptops, mobile phones, ATM cards and SIM cards from them. The gang had set up offices at Delhi and appointed a […]

Hyderabad: In less than six months this year, cyber fraudsters have swindled Rs 2.7 crore in the Cyberabad Police limits alone, using a bait for which most people fall — investment. Investment frauds, which cash on the greed of people and lure them with lucrative offers, saw about 50 cases pertaining to various types of […]

Hyderabad: Cyber fraudsters posing as bank executives duped an elderly man of Rs.6.7 lakh at Neredmet. According to the police, the victim, VG Raghunatha Iyengar (76), from Defence Colony in Neredmet, received a call from a person on May 7, claiming to be a bank official. “On the pretext of updating his account, the fraudster […]

Hyderabad:  A city-based man was duped of Rs.40 lakh by cyber fraudsters on a matrimony site. The victim came in contact with a woman on the website and befriended her. She told him she was settled in Europe and would soon be visiting India when they would be marrying. The woman, through WhatsApp and Facebook […]

Hyderabad: A woman from Jubilee Hills lost Rs 91 lakh to cyber fraudsters who hacked her crypto currency account and looted it. According to the police, the woman, who was into digital trading opened an account with ‘Binance’, a crypto currency exchange, and invested over Rs 91 lakh. “A couple of days ago, she found […]

Hyderabad: A city-based businessman was duped of Rs. 73 lakh by cyber fraudsters on the pretext of investment in crypto currency trade. According to the police, the man, a resident of Kavadiguda, got a message on Telegram app to join a group. When he did so, he began getting messages on investments in crypto currency. […]

Hyderabad: A retired school teacher lost Rs.17,000 to cyber fraudsters on Tuesday. The victim Sudhakar Rao (65), a resident of Puppalguda in Narsingi, received a call wherein the caller introduced himself as an executive of SBI bank. “The caller told Rao that his KYC details were to be uploaded. The fraudsters sent a link to […]

Hyderabad: Two women were duped by cyber fraudsters in the city on Monday. In the first case, a woman was duped on pretext of marriage by a suspected Nigerian conman. The victim, who is a resident of Bowenpally, befriended the man after coming in contact with him over a dating website. The fraudster introduced himself […]

Hyderabad: A businessman from Sultan Bazaar was duped of Rs 14,310 by cyber fraudsters on Sunday. According to the police, Niranjan Sahoo (39), a resident of Esamia Bazaar under Sultan Bazaar police station limits checked Google for the customer care number of a financial institution to close his credit card. He found a toll free […]

Hyderabad: Cyber fraudsters duped a businessman of Rs.9.12 lakh on the pretext of investments in the share market. The man, Chandulal Chowdhary, a resident of Ram Nagar in the city, had received a message from an unknown person on WhatsApp assuring him huge profits on small investments. The conman asked him to download a mobile […]

Hyderabad: The latest victim to the notorious KYC fraud in the city is a pilot, who lost Rs.10.38 lakh. Police said the pilot was conned by cyber fraudsters on the pretext of updating his KYC details in bank records. The victim had on Thursday gone to an ATM centre to withdraw cash and change his […]

Hyderabad: A woman from the city lost Rs 5.70 lakh to cyber fraudsters. The victim, a resident of Punjagutta, had two credit cards of a private bank and recently found that someone else used the cards and spent about Rs. 5.70 lakh. After checking with the financial institution about the transactions, she approached the Cybercrime […]

Hyderabad: The retired manager of a bank was duped of over Rs.5 lakh by cyber fraudsters in the guise of updating the electricity bill payment through Quick Support app. The victim, who paid his electricity bill online, received a call from an unidentified person claiming to be an executive from the electricity department. He informed […]

Hyderabad: Cyber fraudsters cheated an engineering student from the city to the tune of Rs 70,000 in the guise of purchasing furniture on a popular e-commerce site. The 20-year-old youngster from Bagh Amberpet in Amberpet had recently posted an advertisement on the portal to sell a sofa set and within an hour, received a call […]

Hyderabad: A Hyderabad-based businessman was duped of Rs 7.96 lakh by fraudsters, who on the pretext of supplying products for his business, cheated him, the police said. The victim, K Rajesh, was in the business of animal feed and pesticides. A few days ago, one Srinivas, who worked with Rajesh, collected a phone number of […]

Hyderabad: A businessman was duped of Rs.17 lakh by fraudsters who conned him after convincing him that he had won a car in a lucky draw. The man, MA Mujahid Khan of Golconda, received a phone call a month ago from a woman who claimed she was calling from a company and informed that he […]