Avneet Kaur
Jalandhar, May 8
With increasing use of technology and online activities, the city’s Cyber Crime Unit has witnessed a rapid rise in the number of cyber crimes being reported.
While the cases of cyber frauds related to debit, ATM and credit card fraud and card cloning continued to increase and transform before Covid-19 crisis, it seems the pandemic have further worsened the situation by giving swindlers the chance to come up with more sophisticated and professional cyber attacks.
The data of cyber crimes available at the National Crime Records Bureau and at other cyber security websites, shows a five-fold increase in the cyber frauds cases in the recent past and depicts an urgent need to strengthen the country’s digital space.
Talking about Jalandhar in particular, the Cyber Crime Unit of the city police, in the last three months, have registered 312 complaints regarding different cyber crimes.
As per ACP Security, Karan Sandhu, the majority of these complaints received with the city police are related to OTP sharing fraud, customer care number fraud, loan app fraud, impersonating as a relative from abroad and fake IDs on social media networks.
He said out of these 312 complaints received in the last three months, 50 complaints have been disposed of, while FIRs have been registered in nine cases and 253 complaints are pending as they were yet to receive data from TSP,…
