Cyber crime: Cyber crime is continuously increasing in India. According to a report by Check Point Research, weekly cybercrime has increased by 18% in the first quarter of 2023. Cyber criminals are trapping people in their web in different ways. The surprising thing is that even educated people are easily falling in their trap. Meanwhile, news is coming out that a freelance journalist for Delhi has been duped of Rs 40,000 by a scammer.
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Actually, Ramesh Kumar Raja is a freelance journalist who lives in Delhi. What happened was that he received a call from an unknown number in which the person in front told him his friend and while hypnotizing Ramesh, siphoned off Rs 40,000 from his account in two separate transactions. Ramesh told that the scammer called him his friend and said that he wanted to send some money to my account which he would take later. In the beginning, the scammer asked the journalist
about his family, health etc. and established trust. Ramesh thought that it was someone in the know and he fell for the scammer.
Initially Ramesh transferred Rs 2 to the scammer, after which the scammer sent two messages to the journalist asking him to enter the PIN. As soon as Ramesh entered his PIN, Rs 20,000 was deducted from his account in two separate transactions. When Ramesh realized that he had become a victim of a scam, he immediately disconnected the call and went to the police station to register an FIR.
Fraud happening like this
Nowadays scammers get people to transfer some money to their account in the beginning. After this, he requests money from the people and by entering an amount, this notification comes on the number of the person in front. Because the person has already transferred money to that number, hence the alert does not come. As soon as the person puts his PIN in the notification request, money is transferred from the bank immediately. Apart from this, nowadays cyber criminals are trapping people in their trap by becoming close to them. That’s why it is important that you do not trust any unknown person’s call or anything and take any step only after complete verification. Whenever it comes to a transaction, understand that it may be related to a scam and disconnect the phone call immediately and also report the number.
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