VISAKHAPATNAM: Vizag city is known for its cosmopolitan culture and combination of highly educated, semi-illeterate and illiterate population. However, when it comes to online and social media frauds, over 80 per cent victims were educated and much aware of cyber frauds and social media frauds.
The Vizag city police said at least two cyber crimes are happening daily. While some are brought to the notice of police, others go unreported. Some victims hesitate to lodge complaints either citing that their identity may be revealed or due to other reasons. The latest victims of cyber crime are highly educated and they have been active in various social networking platforms. One of the victims lost over 4 crore and another victim was duped of over ₹1.5 crore. The duo were duped on the pretext of investing in crypto currency.
Speaking to TOI, Inspector of Cybercrimes Police Station, K Bhavani Prasad said most of the people who get cheated through various online and social media frauds are educated, some were BTech, MTech and MBA graduates.
They have become victims in frauds involving part time jobs, lottery frauds, online loan frauds, online matrimony, gifts, and online shopping. These victims, despite being aware and having read about such scams, are tricked by scamsters. Greed is the major reason for the people falling prey to scamsters, Bhavani Prasad added.
The police said that the accused were not highly educated but tech savvy. The police explained the modus operandi of online fraudsters based on their investigations. They said most of the accused hail from Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. They call gullible people and introduce themselves as residents of UK, USA or other countries or bank employee or a manager. They usually converse in English and Hindi to take their victims into confidence and then dupe the gullible people.
Our investigation has revealed that most of the unemployed youngsters (engineering and management graduates) were victims of job frauds. Whenever a graduate seeking employment uploads his/her resume on online job portals, fraudsters call the aspirant, and sweet-talk into believing them, either by complimenting their qualification or promising them good pay package. They ask the victims to pay some amount (50,000 to 2 lakh or more as deposit amount) and they also issue fake offer letters to victims. Once their job is done, fraudsters remain incommunicado, the police added.
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