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Hyderabad: The Petbasheerabad police arrested a man from Andhra Pradesh on charges of cheating his friend to the tune of Rs 20 lakh promising high returns on crypto currency investments here on Saturday. The suspect identified as P Ravi Teja (27), a private employee from Vijayawada of Andhra Pradesh, has been into crypto currency investments […]
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Hyderabad: Cybercrime, particularly those registered under the category of ‘fraud’, including credit/debit card, ATM, online banking fraud and OTP frauds, has seen a massive jump across the country from 2017 to 2020. This was revealed by union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Kumar Mishra in a reply to a question in the Rajya […]
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Hyderabad: The lure of cryptocurrency appears to be stronger than the risks involved, even when scores of people in the State capital have been fleeced of crores in the last few months. There have been at least 20 cases of fraud in the name of cryptocurrency investment under the Hyderabad City Police limits alone this […]
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Warangal: A police constable, his wife and one more person have been arrested for duping people to the tune of Rs 1.75 crore on Tuesday. The accused are Syed Khasim (45), a constable, his wife Shaheda of Parimala Colony in Hanamkonda, and Thulsegari Rajabapu of Dhanwada village of Kataram mandal of Jayashankar Bhupalpally district. They […]
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Kanpur: The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K), will provide an indigenously designed tool to help the Uttar Pradesh police in detection and cracking of cases of fraud through cryptocurrency transactions. Professor Sandeep Shukla from IIT-Kanpur, said that the tool developed by IIT, known as HOP, can analyse cryptocurrency transactions. “The tool is cheaper than any […]
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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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New Delhi: Refuting TDP’s charge of misappropriation of about Rs 48,000 crore in Andhra Pradesh during the 2020-21 fiscal, state Finance Minister Buggana Rajendranath Reddy on Monday said the government did not spent this amount but only made book adjustments because of a faulty financial software introduced by the previous regime. Speaking to reporters here, […]
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San Francisco: Former Amazon employee Rohit Kadimisetty has been sentenced to 10 months in prison with a fine of $50,000 for a fraud and bribery scheme targeting the e-commerce giant’s online Marketplace. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) said in a statement that Kadimisetty, 28, of Northridge, California, pleaded guilty to conspiracy in September 2021. […]
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Hyderabad: Two handloom workers from Uttar Pradesh who opened up to 40 accounts in different banks and worked as money mules for some fraudsters from Nigeria were arrested by the Hyderabad police on Saturday. The police seized mobile phones and ATM/ Debit cards from them. The arrested persons are identified as Mohd Nayeem (23) and […]
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Hyderabad: Two persons, who duped a city-based woman of Rs 1.2 crore on the pretext of online investment in the share market, were arrested by the Hyderabad Cybercrime police on Thursday. The police seized debit cards, three mobile phones and Rs 1 lakh. The arrested persons were Rajat Patheriya and Ashwin Badare, both natives of […]
