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Hyderabad: As cyber crooks get personal, impersonating your friends and neighbours and even you, cops are also changing tactics to make the fight against cybercrime faster and more effective. The Hyderabad City Police, as part of its battle against the increasing menace of cybercrime, have gone local, with the initiative to have cyber warriors at […]
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Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Police advised victims of cybercrime frauds to immediately report on emergency helpline 155260 to get the transactions stopped and get the money refunded. The cybercrime wing in a press release said, “In spite of heavy losses in cyber frauds that occurred in Cyberabad, immediate reporting by cyber frauds victims on the helpline […]
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Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Police have intensified investigation into the cheating case of a woman doctor by one Vishwajeet Jha alias Biswajeet Jha, an astrologer who allegedly duped her of Rs 80,000 by promising to help her clear the mandatory Foreign Medical Graduates Examination (FMGE). According to the police, a special team comprising Cybercrime police and […]
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Hyderabad: With several people being cheated in the name of investment apps, the police have warned against investing in the ‘Vestas Wind’ investment app which is quite popular on social media. According to Cybercrime officials, it was observed that in all investment frauds, fraudsters bank on the greed in people, mostly youngsters and homemakers. “They […]
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Hyderabad: A woman software engineer from the city was duped of Rs 21.70 lakh by cyber fraudsters on the pretext of marriage. The woman, a resident of Secunderabad, worked with a software company in the city and had registered with a matrimonial website recently. A month ago, one person who introduced himself as B Vamshi […]
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The first time saw him walking his way into the Lord’s ground during the second Test and setting the field for the Indian team
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The Cyberabad Police jointly with the Society for Cyberabad Security Council had initiated ‘DiLSeY - Digital Literacy to Secure Youth,’ to create awareness on cybercrime in children and adolescents
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Hyderabad: Cyber fraudsters cheated an engineering student from the city to the tune of Rs 70,000 in the guise of purchasing furniture on a popular e-commerce site. The 20-year-old youngster from Bagh Amberpet in Amberpet had recently posted an advertisement on the portal to sell a sofa set and within an hour, received a call […]
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Hyderabad: A Hyderabad-based businessman was duped of Rs 7.96 lakh by fraudsters, who on the pretext of supplying products for his business, cheated him, the police said. The victim, K Rajesh, was in the business of animal feed and pesticides. A few days ago, one Srinivas, who worked with Rajesh, collected a phone number of […]
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Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Cybercrime police arrested a pastor from Andhra Pradesh on charges of derogatory and objectionable comments against a community and deities on social media and hurting sentiments. Police sources said, the pastor, Honey Johnson, from Visakhapatnam, allegedly made derogatory remarks through his YouTube channel recently. Following two complaints, the Cybercrime police booked a […]
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The aim of the agreement is to have a partnership to make cyberspace safe and secure, and take up research and development, operational activities in the field of cyber security
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Advertisements on social media platforms, especially Facebook, are mainly used to defraud people
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The dearth of trained cyber security professionals, in fact, has prompted a few institutes, including Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, to offer courses on cyber security
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The arrested persons were Devansh Rastogi (27) and Imran Khan (22), both from Indirapuram in Ghaziabad, UP.
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Hyderabad: Two people were duped by cyber fraudsters in separate cases in the city. In one case, a job aspirant, Shravan Kumar of Jubilee Hills, was duped of Rs 2 lakh by a woman who collected the money on the pretext of arranging a job in the Income Tax Department. According to Hyderabad Cybercrime officials, […]
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According to the police, the victim Venkat Murali had lost his job during the lockdown and during his attempts to find a new job, uploaded his resume on various online job portals
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Hyderabad: Fraudsters duped a woman of Rs 7 lakh after assuring to provide a job with a prominent telecom services provider. The victim had uploaded a profile on a job portal and received a call from a person who claimed to be an executive of the company. He offered her a job and conducted an […]
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Hyderabad: Conmen duped a woman, a herbal medicine practitioner from Mehdipatnam of Rs.41 lakh on the pretext of buying a medicine formula. According to the police, one person contacted the woman through WhatsApp two years ago, saying he was James Mario from the United States. After chatting with her on herbal medicine and treatments, he […]
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Hyderabad: A businessman from Masab Tank in the city lost Rs 53 lakh to fraudsters who conned him by sending a spoof email. The man, Mohd Khader, of Masab Tank had placed an order for goods worth 97,250 dollars with a Chennai-based company. On instructions of the company, he paid an advance of Rs 29,175 […]
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The actress had in June last year made an online complaint to the Hyderabad police after some persons, claiming to be fans of another prominent actor, sent her abusive and derogatory messages on Twitter
