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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 […]
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Washington: Nearly $100 billion at minimum has been stolen from COVID-19 relief programmes set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic, the US Secret Service said on Tuesday. The estimate is based on Secret Service cases and data from the Labor Department and the Small Business Administration, said […]
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Hyderabad: A bank manager working with the Alipore branch of the ICICI Bank was arrested by the Hyderabad Cybercrime police in the fraud loan app case on Monday. Rakesh Kumar Das, a manager at the ICICI Bank’s Alipore branch in West Bengal allegedly helped two persons, Anand Jannu and Nallamothu Anil Kumar, to open bank […]
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According to an official from HP Gas Company, fraud gas repair technicians are on the prowl in the city
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Hyderabad Cybercrime police arrest five persons for duping Mannapuram Finance Limited of Rs 30 lakh
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All the telecom operators are learnt to have been directed to report to the agencies concerned soon after they find any suspicious link related to any SIM cards being operated from outside India, said a source.
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The player was arrested on Thursday night on charges of "sports bribery and organized fraud for acts likely to have been committed in September 2020," the prosecutor's office said.
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Jayesh Ranjan added that in the post Covid world, the State saw a rise in KYC scam wherein citizens were robbed of their money using fraudulent means.
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The special court had in December 2019 declared Nirav Modi a fugitive economic offender, on a plea of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is conducting a probe into the case.
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According to the police, the woman, a resident of Begumpet, had posted her profile on a matrimonial website a few months ago.
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The convict, V Bhasar Rao misappropriated bank funds to the tune of Rs 10.3 lakh from an ATM centre at Dilsukhnagar in 2007
