of Hyderabad Times Report According to , Hyderabad Cyber Crime Police has helped a person who was a victim of stock trading fraud recover Rs 39 lakh. The victim, who is said to be unemployed, had transferred a total of Rs 78.70 lakh to various bank accounts provided by the fraudsters. The fraudsters had lured the person to earn easy money and the victim deposited the money in installments. However, the person then realized that he had been defrauded when he was not able to withdraw the money.
The victim lodged a complaint in this matter, on the basis of which the cyber crime police started investigation. The report further states that notices were sent to bank officials and action was taken to seize the fraudulent amount. The complainant was also asked to file a petition in the court for the return of the amount kept in the fraudulent account.
Nowadays, such incidents are increasing very fast, where to earn quick money through job or trading, fake apps are downloaded or a person is trapped by chatting through Telegram or WhatsApp and lakhs of rupees are cheated from him. . Similarly, UPI and OTP scams are also increasing, for which the government is continuously making people aware and asking them to be alert.
Let us tell you that the scope of online payments has increased rapidly in the last few years. In May this year, Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions made a record, in which 14.04 billion UPI transactions took place, whose value was approximately $ 20.45 trillion. At the same time, India’s national cyber security agency, CERT-In, had issued an important advisory for the people due to the rapidly increasing OTP fraud in the country. In this, people were given information about how to avoid OTP (One-Time Password) fraud. With digital payments becoming increasingly common, scammers have devised several clever tricks to trick people into sharing their OTP with them, causing people to suffer losses to the tune of lakhs of rupees.