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Mumbai Police Busts Fake Shopping Websites For Duping 22,000 People
Upon receiving several complaints against some fake e-commerce websites, Mumbai's cyber police have arrested a 32-year-old techie Ashish Ahire from Gujarat. The police exposed 12 fake shopping website racket through which the offenders sold products worth Rs 70 lakh by bluffing over 22,000 people. Moreover, to make these websites look genuine and reliable, fraudsters have advertised products on Facebook to lure buyers with their ‘unmissable’… read-more
Tags: Mumbai cyber police, Fake shopping website, fraud transaction, Racket, Gujarat, Mumbai, Cyber Crime
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Karnataka To Set Up System For Freezing Scammers' Account Within 1 Hour
To intensify measures against financial frauds, Karnataka government is planning to setup a system to freeze accounts of the fraudsters within the first hour of the transaction. The police plan to establish a process, wherein the victims can report the fraud through a call/message that will, in-turn, generate a unique number similar to an FIR number. Based on this, banks can immediately freeze the accounts of fraudsters.
Tags: Karnataka, Cyber Crime, Bank fraud, fraud transaction
Courtesy: Deccan Herald
