Mangaluru: Of the 52 cases registered at the Cyber crime crime crime and the Narcotics Police Station (CEN) in Dakshina Kannada District this year, nearly 21 cases related to financial fraud, including bank fraud and work.
According to available data, of the total reported cases, 17 is called through Tipline Cyber, a national central reporting system for online children’s exploits.
In addition, 14 bank fraud cases, including SCAM OTP, online purchases and cheating people with sharing links, registered.
The district also recorded seven cases of work fraud, 12 cases related to social media posts and two cases of ransomware.
Dakshina Kannada SP Rishikesh Sonawan said that many cases of financial fraud were not reported, because the victims had lost money.
Those who have lost small quantities are not advancing to register a kasing.
In the event of a virtual world crime, especially financial fraud, it is important to bring a problem with police notice and register a case, so that the bank account can be immediately frozen, he said.
He said that because of the increase in time spent in the digital world by people, there has been an increase in the reported cyber crime.
Most cases can be avoided, if victims are alert and do not share their OTPS and PIN, and do not click on the link received via SMS, and do not be friends with unknown people on social media, and do not share personal and personal photos and videos Unknown ransomware, related fraud, remote desktop applications and so on.
Police CEN has registered a total of 12 cases in 2019, followed by 18 cases last year.
Banks and job fraud increased from seven at 2020 to 21 years.
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