Ghaziabad: For victims of CyberCrates and financial fraud, who have seen a significant increase in 2020 in Ghaziabad, almost no recovery.
Although Ghaziabad’s police have active cyber cells, police enforcers to overcome such crimes are not enough, the victim said.
The complainant claimed the general attitude of the police had been in a decrease, if not indifferent, while dealing with such cases.
Vasundhara-Resident AB Choudhary (74), a retired media, cheated by Rs 74,000 by Cybercrimes on August 23.
He called the number where he received an SMS to update your customer document (KYC).
A month after Choudhary filed a complaint at the Indirapuram police station, he claimed, there was “no progress”.
“The last time I checked with the police about my case status, I was told that cyber cells were doing it.
I have lost sleep on it and everything I get from the police is a guarantee empty,” he said.
“I am a retired man and it pinches me to lose the money obtained hard to the fraudsters,” he added.
Choudhary said he had found a message on his cellphone which said that he needed to renew his KYC immediately.
“Panic, I called the number from where the message was sent.
I was told to pay Rs 10 as a processing fee through Net Banking and the next thing I knew was that RS 24,000 was deducted from my account.” The septuagenarian claim he hasn’t found out what’s happening When he received another phone from a cheater.
“They said I had to pay the processing fee from another card, which I did.
And this time the other 49,000 Rs was deducted from my account.
When I realized fraud, I rushed to the Indirapuram police station,” he added.
Choudhary claims the police did not show a lot of urgency or interest in his complaint and he was made to sign several papers to be submitted to the bank.
“Because this fraudster comes from various parts of the country, it is very difficult to track them, is what the police said.
At most, the police told me, they could find a place where the call came from and told the police station concerned,” he said .
Pinky Mishra (32), a housewife, made the same mistake when she responded to phone calls and was asked to immediately renew KYC four months ago.
“I am not experienced in online transactions and I panicked,” Mishra said.
“Later my daughter told me that Rs 45,000 was debited from my account.
I rushed to the police station the next day.
Since then, there has been no word from the police,” he added.
‘Police told me that they could only track the location of the call & inform the local police station’
