Tamil Nadu News: Cyber crime police have registered a case and started investigation against the suspects who defrauded 34 people, including private school teachers, farmers and self-employed people of Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu, to the tune of about Rs 1.50 crore through social media for the last several days.
Nowadays technological development is proving to cause more harm than good. In this regard, we are talking to online trading, online jobs and banks through social media. In the name of KYC verification, fraudsters are on the rise, committing fraud of lakhs of rupees by making attractive promises of higher profits on completing the tasks mentioned by us.
Fraud of about Rs 1.50 crore by luring
In this type of fraud, about 34 people, teachers working in private schools in Thanjavur city, Kumbakonam and surrounding areas, farmers, job seekers, electrical contractors, part time job seekers, have contacted the Thanjavur Cyber Crime Police for the last 10 days to complain about money fraud by contacting them on WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook, Instagram. According to this, a fraud of about Rs 1.50 crore has been committed by luring each person with Rs 5 lakh to Rs 7 lakh.
The police registered 34 cases the day before yesterday and started investigation.
Based on the complaints thus received, Thanjavur Cyber Crime Police has registered 34 cases the day before yesterday and started investigation. In this regard, Cyber Crime Police said that to prevent crimes like financial fraud, fake apps, social media fraud, asking for deposits in online trading, we are spreading awareness with the helpline number 1930 and cybercrime.gov.in website.
Mainly, it is important not to accept unknown calls, not to share personal information and not to click on fake links. Apart from this, we should not be deceived by believing that we are talking to the bank, OTP would have come, such calls, in this way we are spreading awareness in various ways. Still, the public needs to be more aware of this. This type of online fraud should be understood and action should be taken. Information like ATM PIN should not be shared. He said so.