Nagpur: Jeena Varghese, a Canadian citizen, recently marked the city police in a tweet about fraud that occurred with his last year.
Cyber Cell followed up with his complaint and made sure he got RS9,700 back from online cloth traders this week.
In another example, a man from the Philippines also received assistance from the Cyber cell police, and got a refund of RS17.102 last week from a fortune teller with whom he had a dispute.
In about a year, cyber cell city cyber has helped victim Cybercrime restore RS1.71 Crore lowered by fraudsters.
Cyber cells are reinforced by CP Amitesh Kumar.
Cyber cell sources say cell monitoring social media sees a tweet by Varghese from Canada, tells his personality regarding online cloth traders.
He had found a merchant at Instagram, who received his payment and promised to send some dresses from India, but then stopped all communication.
Cyber Cell team under the assistant pi pi keshav wagh, supervised by DCP Chetna Tidke, approaching Varghese for more detailed complaints.
Varghese narrated how he transferred the amount to cloth traders online and then blocked by them.
He has even contacted both banks involved, the state of India and ICICI, but did not receive assistance from them.
Wagh and his team traced bank accounts and focused on family members of cloth traders in Nagpur.
Fabric traders are then offered to restore the amount.
Varghese will be brought to Twitter to thank the city police because of their intervention.
In another incident, a victim of the Philippines, who was India from birth, had called the police control room to complain that he lost RS17.102 to a fortune teller.
The latter promised to send him ‘Yantra’ or charm for luck, but failed to do it.
The control room has shared the number of DCP Tidke.
After connecting with Tidke, the complainant has returned the money.
The Cyber Cell team was studied to browse city-based fortifications and asked him to explain the complaints submitted against him.
Astrologers, which are part of the online platform that offers astrological solutions, decided to refund money to avoid fraud.