Cyber cell helps refund ₹1.5 lakh stolen from four in online fraud

JAIPUR: The cyber cell of Jaipur city police on Friday successfully refunded around ₹1.5 lakh in bank accounts of four people who were allegedly robbed online by hackers.

Jaipur city police commissioner Anand Shrivastava said in the past two day, ₹1.80 lakh were duped f r om t he bank accounts of four people through different mediums.

On May 7, a case was registered at cyber police station by a man who was duped of ₹99,990 in three different transactions. The victim was called by an unknown person who pretended as his relative and asked him to open a link. As soon as the accused opened the link, money was deducted from his accounts.

Similarly, another man was trapped in the same manner in Bajaj Nagar police station area of ₹40,000, another man was duped of ₹13,000 in the similar style in SEZ area.

In another cheating case, a person’s social media account was hacked and ₹20,000 was wit hdrawn f r o m hi s b a nk account.

“Seeing the seriousness of the case, a special team was formed to nab the accused,” said Shrivastava.

Additional commissioner of police, Ashok Gupta (crime) said the cyber cell was doing online surveillance and monitoring to keep a check on rumours and online hacking.

“The cyber cell doing online investigation was successful in refunding the money in the accounts of the victims. The accounts in which the money was transferred were freezed,” Gupta said.

Additional deputy commissioner of police, crime, Vimal Singh said the hackers created fake interface of reputed online money transfer application. “The cyber cell analysed 70 to 80 accounts and studied the gateways to get rid of the accounts,” said Singh.