DIAL , CYBER SECURITY CELL NUMBER AT ONCE IF ANY FRAUD BY THE CYBER CRIMINALS

CYBER SECURITY AND CRIMES :-- During the covid-19 pandemic pace towards digital transactions and online frauds has quickened . During the covid-19 pandemic police has received about 8000 Complaints which includes Shoppers, buyers and the sellers most of them tried to buy online goods or sell them on the classified website but ended up losing their hard money. The maximum of the Complaints on cyber cheating have been noticed from the West Bengal, Mumbai , Delhi , jamtara Jharkhand, and Channai The complainants data showed the cyber cell received 500 Complaints of debit or credit card cloning and money being withdrawn fraudulently from the ATMs from the above total of more than 370 wera cheated after they read out their bank and the OTP details to strangers posing as bank and the company executives. It also includes more than four hundred Complaints of the creating fake IDs on Social media, as many as more than twenty people lost their money to fraudsters selling and handling the LIC policies as well as the claims with the company .The Superintendent of police cyber cell stated that the department has started a facility of dialing the 112 number for complainants to deal with the cyber frauds and their calls would be directly transferred to the cyber cell earlier it was to be registered by the complainants in the office of the cyber crimes .It is also stated that cyber cheating amounting to Rs 1.2 crores has been refunded it also further informed that it is easy to stop transactions or refund the money with in 24 hours of the cheating however delay of few days may not help much in such refunds and recoveries. The police authorities can recover the money after arresting the cheater but it may take several months Police further stated that the cyber criminals used identity cards of the poors and underprivileged people to open bank accounts for money they have cheated during the online transaction