The Gurugram Police have registered around 130 cases related of fraud online money transfer within three days in different police stations in the city. Besides that, around 2,400 complaints of frauds related to ATM cards, email and Facebook hacking accounts have received by the city police this year so far.
This year has seen a marginal increase in cases of cyber crime in the millennium city. While the city police has registered 87 online money transfer fraud cases in 2015; such cases rose to 130 in 2016. The Gurugram Police registered 130 cases of fraud online money transfers in December 29, 30 and 31 under the information technology (IT) act.
According to police, these cases were under investigation for the past 2-3 months. The police usually registers a case under the IT act only after the matter is investigated by the cyber crime cell.
In the previous year, police had registered 1,350 cases related to online fraud and overall the total number of the cases which were related to the IT act was 2,142.
In most of these cases, the fraudsters had called up the victims and cheated them after fraudulently obtaining their account details or their debit or credit card details on the pretext of blocking of their accounts or renewing their cards. When the victims reveal their account details money is transferred from their accounts. The victims come to know about the fraud after getting SMS alerts on their phones from their banks.
"Earlier, our cyber cell team has attended a training session with The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), so that they can crack cyber cases effectively said," a senior police official.
"We have deployed around seven Inspectors rank officers to crack the cyber crime cases as soon as possible," he said.
"Our main agenda is to arrest the accused and sent them behind the bars. We have advised peoples on time to time that do not share their accounts details to anyone because no banks asked any account details on phone," said Sumit Kuhar, DCP (crime), Gurugram.
"Due to the staff crunch in the cyber cell we took little bit time to investigate the case. We have sent a proposal to the state government to increase police personnel in the cyber cell in Gurugram," he said.