Hyderabad: Cyber fraudsters no longer target only people who are easily fooled by their tricks such as in trends that are worried about people who have a high profile also falling prey with disaster consequences.
A former Director General of Police, an educated judicial and NRI officer is one of the new cyber fraud targets, the top police official said.
“Recently, while virtually discussed the IPS trial period at SVP National Police Academy (NPA), Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that women and children were very susceptible to cyber crimes.
But what we observe now is that people who occupy High profile position is also a victim of online fraud, “said a top police.
A few days ago, the chairman and managing director of Telangana State Southern Power District Company Limited (TSSPDCL) G Raghuma Reddy filed a complaint to the Cyber Hermerabad police who claimed that sensitive information was taken from him by fraudsters.
“The caller identified himself as an employee of a general insurance company and asked me to provide Details of PAN numbers and SIM numbers to get a claim of 4.5 lakh insurance,” Reddy said to the police in his complaint.
Worries that the credentials may be misused by fraudsters, he continued he said: “I have completed the details of the SIM number and PAN number that thinks that the call is original.
But after some time, I suspect and try to call back on the same cellphone number and turned off .
When I checked the number with TrueCaller, I found it was a fake.
“Similarly, a retired director general of police rank recently lost nearly Rs 2.5 lakh after callers posing as BSNL call center executives asked him to update the know your customer ( KYC).
Unknown people make the top police used to download long distance access applications on their cellphones.
Furthermore, hackers collect all the details of net banking from police officers and make four different banking transactions and withdraw money.
Many of the victims who were cheated since the last moment were residents of Hills Banjara Air, Jubilee Hills and Madhapur, consisting of business people, technicians and executives.
Someone who came from India who lived in the United States and Hyderabad, lost Rs 11.50 Crore a few days ago.
He was cheated by several people with the pretext of trading seed oil through the import business.
The victim, who is a doctor, has responded to an unsolicited email.
He filed a complaint to Hyderabad police when he was in town.
“Violations of customer details are one of the main reasons for cyber fraud.
Many victims fall prey to fraudsters since the fraudsters after accessing the data violated, provide authentic details about customers such as policy details or banking information or similar information, while fooling customers that it is an authentic phone call .
Trusting callers, the victims shared all the information requested, “Assistant Commissioner of Police (Cybercrime) KVM Prasad told TII.
He added that new trends captivated people to download remote accessing applications into dangerous weapons.
“Using the application, fraudsters get access to the victim’s cellphone and suck money,” said Prasad.
Hyderabad: New Cyber Cons targets high profile people
