Man posing as NRI relative dupes Haryana man of 3 lakh, held from Bihar

The accused was traced and arrested from Bihar, police said, adding that the investigation revealed that he was part of a larger cyber fraud network.

“These fraudsters target random victims by posing as their NRI relatives. They ask them for money saying they are in trouble and need money to get out of the situation. Worried about their relatives, the victims transfer the money to the accounts provided by these fraudsters.

This is what happened in Hardeep Singh’s case,” the spokesperson said.

“Cybercrime operates on social engineering. To stop this, there is a need for better cyber training and awareness among the public. The state police is organising cyber awareness programmes in each district,” said OP Singh, Additional Director General of Police, State Crime Branch, Haryana.

He said the the increasing awareness among the public can be gauged from the fact that in the first three months of this year (January to March), approximately 25,000 complaints related to cybercrime were filed. “We registered 531 cases and arrested 299 cybercriminals,” he said, urging people to be careful and not to trust calls or messages from unknown numbers or any suspect posing as someone they know.

Cyber criminals arrested from Nuh defrauded people across country: Cops
Nuh: Cyber criminals arrested from Nuh district in a massive police crackdown were involved in defrauding people across India, a senior officer said on Saturday. A total of 125 cyber criminals were apprehended from Nuh in a massive operation conducted by Haryana Police on Friday. The arrests were made during raids in 14 villages by 102 teams comprising more than 5,000 police personnel.

The arrested accused were involved in financial crimes and several laptops, phones and guns were seized from them, according to police.

“These arrested criminals were involved in cybercrime across India. Forty cybercrime experts from Haryana Police are assisting our investigators,” said Superintendent of Police, Nuh, Varun Singla.

“We will conduct an investigation in coordination with the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre,” he said.

Of the total 125 people who were apprehended, 60 were released and 65 were arrested after it was found that they were involved in cybercrime.