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Hyderabad: In yet another cryptocurrency fraud, a city-based businessman lost Rs.10 lakh to fraudsters. The man, a resident of Musheerabad, had got a message on WhatsApp with details of crypto currency trade and a link to join a ‘BTC group’ a week ago. He joined the WhatsApp group through the link and initially invested around […]
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Hyderabad: When the sun shines, there will be many trying to make hay, and that is exactly what is happening as government job prospects for the youth of Telangana are shining bright. Fraudsters are out to cheat those applying for jobs, prompting the police to issue a warning asking job aspirants to be extra vigilant. […]
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Hyderabad: The Cybercrime police have booked a case against a man for making offensive comments against Hindu deities and hurting sentiments of the community. The man, Srinath Chowdhary, identified by his social media accounts, made the comments a few days ago, after which actor Karate Kalyani lodged a complaint with the Hyderabad Cybercrime police. Efforts […]
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Hyderabad: The Rachakonda cybercrime police arrested two persons on charges of cheating people in the guise of online trading on Wednesday. The arrested persons were B. Ravi (36), from Attapur and V.Raghu (35) from Mulugu. Police said Ravi was cheating people through various Multi-Level Marketing schemes with help of his accomplices Veer Singh, Sandeep Singh […]
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Hyderabad: Senior Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao has lodged a complaint with Hyderabad Cybercrime officials alleging that unidentified persons posted on social media a morphed picture of him along with Sangareddy Congress MLA Jayaprakash Reddy and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao with a caption saying the Congress leaders were supporting KCR. In his complaint, Hanumantha […]
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Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Cybercrime police teams are continuing investigation into the Mahesh Cooperative Urban Bank e-fraud case. So far five persons, including three from Bengaluru and two from Delhi, were arrested by the police while scores of others were questioned. Cyber fraudsters had hacked into four bank accounts in different branches of Mahesh Bank and […]
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Hyderabad: The Cybercrime police booked two cases against various persons on charges of morphing the image of AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi and circulating false messages on social media. The other case was booked against some persons for circulating false information about the Bhagyalaxmi temple at Charminar.
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Hyderabad: A 19 year-old student, pursuing a course in multimedia, who posed as a woman and collected nude videos and pictures of young girls after befriending them on Instagram to later blackmail them, was arrested here. According to the Hyderabad cybercrime police, Palakurthi Ajay (19) of Dilsukhnagar and native of Warangal, befriended a minor girl […]
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Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Cybercrime police will soon be filing charge sheet in a few more cases registered in regard to the Chinese loan app fraud. A total of 28 cases were booked by the Hyderabad police and 22 persons including some China nationals were arrested in the fraud running into thousands of crores rupees. “Charge […]
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Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Cybercrime police arrested a Nigerian who allegedly cheated people on pretext of sending gift parcels. The police seized seven mobile phones, two bank accounts pass books and a debit card from him. The man identified as Onyeka Solomon Wisdom alias Simon, (24) a native of Asaba in Nigeria stays in Chanakyapuri in […]
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Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Cybercrime police helped a man, who fell victim to a cyber fraud, to get back Rs.11 lakh that he lost to an online gaming company. In July this year, Syed Asgar Ali had approached the Cybercrime police alleging his eight-year-old grandson had lost Rs.11.5 lakh while playing an online game. A case […]
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Hyderabad: The image of a betel nut chewing, evil looking character behind those shady calls trying to extract your personal data from you is changing. Two recent raids by the Cyberabad Cybercrime Police have revealed that cyber fraudsters have become as sophisticated, organised and entrepreneurial as any other IT firm. From recruiting and training tele-callers […]
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Hyderabad: To be wary of strangers is one of the most valuable lessons while living in the web age. A shady rise in the number of friend requests on Facebook for many people here, mostly from profiles that have display pictures of attractive women and claiming to be from across the border, has prompted Cybercrime […]
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Hyderabad: A complaint was lodged with the cybercrime police in Rachakonda, after a man allegedly received threatening messages on his mobile phone in the name of Maoists. Police sources said the man, a resident of Ramanthapur, was receiving messages from an unknown number claiming to be from Maoists and demanding Rs 5 lakh. They asked […]
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Hyderabad: Staying updated is becoming the motto for criminals too, if the methods being adopted by credit card fraudsters are considered. After using wireless skimmers to steal card details, this tribe is now using spoofing techniques to produce proxy Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. This is proving to be a task for the police, who often […]
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Gangs create WhatsApp groups or directly contact victims through WhatsApp numbers beginning with ‘+44’ and lure them to invest in crypto-currency business
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Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Cybercrime police have booked cases against 16 people for watching child pornography. The case was booked following information provided by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) to the Telangana State Crime Investigation Department. “Some international agencies who monitor sexual abuse of children alerted the NCRB about some persons from the country browsing […]
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Hyderabad: A man who allegedly stole his uncle’s debit card and withdrew Rs 6.5 lakh, was arrested by the Cybercrime police on Thursday. According to the police, the person identified as Prasad stole his uncle’s debit card during a visit to the city. He took the card along with him to Guntur where he withdrew […]
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The Hyderabad Cybercrime Police is investigating.
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Hyderabad: A Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) constable currently posted at the National Industrial Security Academy in Hyderabad was arrested by the Rachakonda Cybercrime police for creating a fake email ID and sending false emails to the central headquarters here on Tuesday. According to the Cybercrime police, the constable Shankar Dayal Poddar (28), from West […]
