Noida: At 1.585, Gautam Budh Nagar has seen the highest number of cyber in the state in 2020, when the majority of people are limited to homes because locking shifts to online transactions to order anything from food.
According to the latest report by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), GB Nagar was attended by Lucknow, Prasagraj, Ghaziabad and Varanasi in terms of the number of Cybercrime cases.
While Lucknow reported 1,465 cases, Prasagraj saw 1,102.
The neighbor Ghaziabad registered 896 cases in 2020, followed by Varanasi in 564.
NCRB data showed that in most of these regions, street crime fell last year because of a few people who came out on the streets.
Of the 1,585 cases of online fraud nesting in Noida, 803 is a computer-related violation, 307 submitted under Section 66 of the IT law (sending very offensive messages), 51 cases of ransomware and 371 attacks are forgery.
Similarly, there are 288 cases of cheating through the online platform.
Many cyber fraud victims have told the Toi that the most difficult part was to register complaints and pursue cases with the police.
While fraud uses OTP-based transactions – where victims are captivated to share passwords one time – is one of the most common methods, data 2020 does not have one case under this category in Noida.
There are no cases related to data theft too.
A total of 25 cases are registered for online banking fraud and 19 related to debit / credit cards.
Additional DCP (middle noida) ankur aggarwal, which is also responsible for cyber cells in Nidal, told TOI that many of these cases have been included in other categories.
“Usually, kasings are filed in categories such as online banking fraud, fraud through credit cards, etc.,” he added.
The source said Statistics 2020 for data theft may have been submitted under “Ransomware” or similar categories.
Data theft often amount to privacy violations, which have shown increased trends.
In 2020, there were 496 cases of social media accounts that were hacked and 29 cases of cyber stalkers of women and children.
In some cases, the profile of Facebook and Instagram from police officers, politicians and individuals are hacked and the money is searched by their names.
The sources in the police acknowledged that the increasing number of Cyberrime was worried but agreed that the style did not have infrastructure to resolve cases in time.
The main causes of concerns on cell nida cyber are the lack of ranked inspector officers, who are authorized to implement the probe in the case of online fraud submitted under the IT Law.
Cyber cells, said sources, only have 15-16 sub-inspectors and police rank officials.
Police Commissioner GB Nagar has asked permission from the top police headquarters to increase cyber cell capacity.
The commissioner is believed to have proposed that around 150 police were included in cyber cells along with ACP level officers.
With the absence of senior officers, complaints nested with cyber cells are usually referred to the local police station, said the source.
“The case then lingers turn on.
Because many documents are involved in such cases, it often slows the probe,” said a police officer.
In 2020, Noida saw most cases of cyber fraud above
