Hyderabad: Cyberfraudsters have adopted a modus operandi to cheat gullible people using the Central government schemes related to health, loans and employment generation. According to a police officer, “Scammers often use tactics such as asking victims to pay some money to access benefits under these government schemes. Once they run the APK file, it downloads malware which snaps away the …
Bhopal: In a rare rescue, the police here freed a man who had been held in ‘digital arrest’ for six hours at his own house by cyberfraudsters. “This is perhaps the first such live rescue operation carried out by the Madhya Pradesh police in a case relating to the digital arrest of a person by cyberfraudsters,” Yadav said. Acting on …
Hyderabad: The task force on Saturday along with city cybercrime police and TS Cyber Security Bureau have arrested five members of a gang for opening ‘mule’ bank accounts and supplying them to cyberfraudsters. Saifi went to the Gulf in 2019 and came in contact with Zaid of Muradabad, UP, and Sandeep Singh of Punjab, who said that they were engaged …
HYDERABAD: In separate cases, city cyber teams arrested two cyberfraudsters with international links for cheating two city-based persons victims of Rs 3.86 crore by offering fraudulent stock investment and via an online game app. Announcing this, Hyderabad police commissioner Kothakota Sreenivasa Reddy said the police had served notice to Tanna’s associates Judith Gonsalves and Sana Mohammed Qureshi of Mumbai, who …
