Fraud insurance loan grows, thanks to the effects of compounding Kriber.
More cases were revealed since the Marg police in October arrested four people to run a fake insurance call center from the rented office at Mal Thane.
Conservative estimates show that the fraud can experience more than RS 50 Crore in the Mumbai region.
Now, three cases of back-to-back from Pune and Mumbai have made police cyber cells enter and pay attention.
Not suspicious investors have been warned to be aware of emails and text messages that sell insurance products.
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In the case of Thane Mall, where the defendant was all former employees of various call centers, investigators had found financial transactions from RS 5 Crore in one of their nine bank accounts detected.
Now, the second FIR has been submitted in this case by Charkop police based on complaints by a 54-year-old housewife.
The accusation was allegedly called him and convinced him that he could take advantage of the RS 5 Lakh loan against his insurance policy.
The policy has been running and they asked him to pay arrears to reactivate it.
As the cost of processing and registration, they took RS 91,000 from it, and then broke all communications.
Ritesh Bhatia, founder of Cybersecurity V4Web, said the cases began to light up in recent years, when people who were easily deceived would be contacted on the telephone or email from an insurance company or agent who was rejected and then sentenced.
“Four years ago, a 70-year-old woman lost her life savings to cyber fraudsters who posed as an insurance company executive.
Offering a variety of schemes, they cheated her from Lakh Rupee.
This is not a new form of cybercrime.
I would say it has reappeared now How to forgive to deceive people because awareness has increased about the regular form of cyber fraud as a fraud of debit cards or credit cards, OTP fraud, and phishing emails, “Bhatia said.
In August, the Cyber ​​Pune police began investigations into racquets where fraudsters, disguised themselves as representatives of well-known insurance companies, selling fake vehicle schemes, fires and health online for unsuspecting people.
The company filed a complaint with the police after fraud was revealed in mid-July, when the scam victim submitted a claim application after losing the property.
While verifying them, company officials realized that the policy document was false.
Capturing fraudsters is difficult because many are proficient using the internet by hiding their trail.
Cyber ​​security experts Nikhil Mahadeshwar said cyber criminals also used Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) for their evil purposes.
“They use proxy-based internet calls and it is difficult to trace again.
These people are trained and know the behavior of Call Center employees and have good convincing skills.
They use techniques called war calls.
Social engineering techniques are also used,” Mahadeshwar said , Cofounder and CTO, Skynet Softtech.
Experts say someone needs to be aware of online communication.
“Cyber ​​fraudsters become more sophisticated and open up new ways to steal money from your bank account.
They will try to steal confidential information by pretending to update your KYC details, suggest re-KYC, offering work, threatening to block your account or talk about circumstances There is no emergency, “said Bank Ravi Santhanam HDFC marketing officer in the customer’s email warning.
Mahadeshwar said fraudsters do search engine optimization to get at the top of the Google page rank system.
“If the user looks for the name of the original insurance company, SEO technique helps cheats listed on the first page.
Following such links is an invitation to take risks.” He said, “Install the application like a true caller to identify spam calls.
If you get a call like that, Don’t provide personal or transactional information to fraudsters.
They also send you a link to install a remote connection application like a team-viewer or anydesk on your mobile.
RBI suggests not to use anydesk.
So, don’t install applications like that and don’t provide information to callers Unknown.
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