"cyber-fraudsters"

Posing as power staff, they contact guillible people and ask them to clear pending bills by downloading an App and siphon off funds.

Cyber fraudsters duped a woman software employee from the city to the tune of Rs.18 lakh posing as Customs and CBI officials.

Unknown cyber fraudsters attempted to collect money by impersonating as Director General, Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Anjani Kumar.

Assuring to delete them permanently, the fraudster collected money and cheated the complainant.

Cyber fraudsters duped a woman software engineer from Jubilee Hills to the tune of Rs 95,500 by allegedly posing as Mumbai police officials.

New Delhi: Cyber fraudsters have found a new way to target innocent people and cheat them of their hard-earned money. The Central Pension Accounting office under the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance has noted that cyber fraudsters have been calling to pensioners to update their Life certificate by getting their data, and has alerted […]

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 […]