"fraud"

The case was registered after an official of CMRF wing of Revenue Department of the State government made a complaint.

The victim met the couple through some contacts and expressed his desire to send his son for higher education to United States. “

DSP Venugopal Reddy suggests victims to register a complaint within minutes after losing the amount by calling 1930 or by raising a complaint on cybercrime.gov.in.

The arrested persons, Johny J and M Samuel, contacted the victims through Telegram app on pretext of part-time job and offered the task to ‘like and subscribe’ links that they shared with them.

In this nefarious fraud, fraudsters/hackers manipulate and divert calls and messages of victims to specific numbers to obtain OTPs and then log into their WhatsApp accounts.

According to police, the two somehow came in touch with Sankalp Employment Office located in Space Eye Tech Tower in Sector 49 of Gurugram and approached it for admission

In her complaint to the Panvel police on Wednesday, the woman said she lost the money between September 17 and October 4.

The Telekyope toolkit originates from the fusion of 'Telegram' and 'kopye' (the Russian word for spear).

In carrying out this scheme, Aggarwal fraudulently obtained nearly $2,729,718 from KBS that he caused it to pay to the approved vendors that ultimately went to himself.

The Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday accused the Delhi Development Authority of indulging in fraud over the allotment of flats built by it in northwest Delhi's Wazirpur.

Nirav told the court he had been borrowing money as he did not have sufficient funds because his assets had been frozen in India over the extradition proceedings

The cybercrime cases witnessed a spike in Cyberabad in the year 2022 with 4,850 cases registered as against 3,854 cases the previous year

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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. […]