Even as the high court has taken a strict stand closer to growing instances of cyber crimes, the cyber police station of Prayagraj Range and cyber cell are leaving no stone unturned in busting gangs and convalescing cash of fraud sufferers. The cyber group faces demanding situations in tracing fraudsters who're usually primarily based totally in remote regions of different states and use financial institution bills and SIM cards procured thru faux documents.
Moreover, the uncooperative mindset of financial institution government and community provider providers makes their work more challenging, they say.
It is worth citing that withinside the past few months, teams of the cyber police stations and the cyber cell of Prayagraj police have succeeded in busting many gangs of fraudsters and additionally controlled to get better the lost cash of complainants within 24 hours of the crime. They also are launching campaigns thru social media and different ways to create awareness amongst people to control cybercrimes.
SHO, cyber police station inspector Rajeev Tiwari stated 35 instances of cyber frauds were lodged for the reason that police station came into existence, which includes one case that was transferred from every other police station. In 4 of the instances, charge sheets were filed withinside the courtroom docket even as final documents were submitted in a single case. Almost all the misplaced coins in 4 charge-sheeted instances were recovered from the fraudsters and it had also been back to fraud sufferers in lots of different instances of cybercrimes. In total, coins around ₹45 lakh were recovered from cyber fraudsters and given returned to the complainants, Tiwari added.
A cyber police station official stated even though the instances of cybercrimes were growing, the group needed to paintings with confined assets and often confronted challenges because of the non-cooperative mindset of banks and community service providers.
“Cyber fraudsters use forged Aadhar cards, PAN cards and other documents for opening bank accounts and obtaining SIM cards. The banks and network service providers carry out OTP based verification instead of conducting physical or manual verification of the documents submitted. As the bank account used by fraudsters is opened on forged documents it becomes difficult to trace them. Moreover, online fraudsters use fake documents for taking SIM cards which they use for a short period. Once the SIM card is thrown away, it becomes a difficult task to trace their location through electronic surveillance and arrest them,” the official shared.
The cyber police had also requested the court to issue guidelines to banks to provide required data to police within 24 to 48 hours of the request, the official added.