Tag: Cyber Crime

After the police could not make any breakthrough in the case, the distressed parents had also staged a demonstration at the Maitri Vihar police station. 

The arrested scammers have been identified as Anil Hembram of Balasore, who is the mastermind of the group, Deepak Patel and Kamlesh Patel of Sambalpur and Rajesh Behera of Rourkela. 

The cyber-financial fraud came to light after Ratna Tripathy of Nayapalli area Bhubaneswar lodged a complaint in this regard. The victim alleged that she received a phone call on June 19 where the caller introduced himself as an employee of FedEx, Hyderabad.

According to the complaint, the bank officials informed all the concerned authorities but no one could figure out the reason for the mismatch of such a huge amount.

The goal of the scam is to trick you into entering your personal information, such as your Social Security number or credit card number. 

The attackers use poorly-formed HTML pages or a non-supported language to prevent Google from translating the webpage. Google responds by providing a link to the original URL stating that it cannot translate the underlying website.

What is more surprising is that the Odisha Crime Branch’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has issued Look Out Circular (LOC) against such 11 accused in the past two years. However, the EOW has been successful in arresting one accused so far.

A written complaint has been filed by her at Ainthapali Pollice Station in Sambalpur in this connection.

Both were in a relationship earlier, and due to some reason broke up.

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She browsed for hotels in Puri and zeroed in on a particular hotel near the Blue Flag beach. She dialed the contact number provided by the search engine and the persons on the other side asked her to pay Rs 9,000 as an advance payment for booking.

According to the information shared by the Odisha police, in 2019-20, 1,475 cyber crime cases were registered.

The total fraud amounts to Rs 12.97 crore while the cops have been successful in ensuring a refund of over Rs 1.23 crore during the past one year. The cops were able to reverse and block transactions worth around Rs 2.69 crore.

In her complaint, the victim alleged that an Instagram user, pretending to be a Gynecologist from Netherlands, had contacted her on the social media platform. Subsequently, the victim started communicating with the accused on WhatsApp.

The recent victim is a director of a south-Delhi based security services company who received the shock of his life after losing Rs 50 lakh just to missed calls by the cyber fraudsters.