Rs. 62.46 Lakhs Lost Money Deposited In Victims Account: DCP 

Hyderabad, Feb 21 (Maxim News): Cybercriminals have been defrauding innocent people by promising high profits in investments, providing loans, and threatening them with drug parcels.  Realizing that they had been cheated, many victims approached the cyber crime police.

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On the orders of City Cyber Crime DCP Kavitha, the cybercrime police, under the supervision of ACP Shiva Maruthi, entered the field and froze the bank accounts of the cyber criminals based on technical evidence. The lost money Rs. 62,46,900 was recovered by the police and deposited in the accounts of the victims with the permission of the court.  

According to the details given by DCP Kavitha, Criminals threatened 8 people from the city by saying that they would get high profits if they invested in trading and six others by saying that they were sending drugs in the name of FedEx parcels. They looted lakhs of rupees from them.  One said that they would provide online loans.  In another case, cyber criminals looted lakhs of rupees under the pretext of company invoices.  

Acting on the complaint of the victims, the police, who entered the field, froze the bank accounts of the cyber criminals based on technical evidence and recovered the money worth Rs. 62,47,087 that they had stolen.  Victims who have lost money after falling into the hands of cyber criminals should approach the police within the first hour (golden hour).

Otherwise, they should file a complaint on the NCRP portal or by calling the toll-free helpline number 1930.  DCP Dhara Kavitha said that the police will collect technical evidence and freeze the money stolen by the cyber criminals in the accounts of the cyber criminals somewhere and provide justice to the victims.  (Maxim News)

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