cyber

MUMBAI: In a phishing fraud, a health company looking for investors was duped of Rs 2.25 crore by an international hacker when an unknown person posed as ‘corporate communication manager’ of the Singapore company wanting to invest in his company, sent him a link, asked him for some details and when the complainant clicked on the link, Rs 2.5 crorein his Crypto currency wallet, got siphoned off.The...

AHMEDABAD: Tarun Jinaraj — a murder suspect who allegedly killed his wife Sajni Nair in 2003 — was nabbed by the Gujarat's Ahmedabad Cyber Crime team at a paying guest facility in Delhi's Najafgarh area on Thursday.Jinaraj had jumped the interim bail and failed to report back. He is accused of killing Sajni by choking her on Valentine’s Day in 2003, three months after their wedding in...

KOLKATA: Police in Kolkata, Barrackpore and Barasat have come across multiple cases where women — some of them teachers, lawyers or with respectable jobs — are receiving extortion calls from cyber crooks after they are being informed of receiving puja gifts in parcels sent through courier.Even as a victim tries to guess who sent them the parcel, she receives a second call, with the person claiming...

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha director general of police, Sunil Kumar Bansal, on Thursday unveiled a mascot for a statewide awareness campaign on cyber safety that would be held from September 30 to October 15. Chief minister Naveen Patnaik is scheduled to inaugurate the campaign on Thursday.The mascot, christened as Cyrra (a combination of cyber and Irrawady), has been designed like a dolphin. Police said they...

THANE: A 34-year-old woman in Maharashtra's Thane district was defrauded of Rs 5.6 lakh by a social media friend who claimed to have sent her a gift from abroad, police said on Tuesday. According to a police officer, a woman residing in the Dombivali area was a victim of cyber fraud last month. The woman became aware of the deception and subsequently reported the incident to the police.From February 5...

THANE: A 70-year-old woman in Maharashtra's Thane district lost Rs 8.30 lakh in a case of cyber fraud, a police official said on Monday. The Mira Road resident had purchased six towels online and Rs 19,005 was debited from her account instead of Rs 1,169, after which she called her bank, the official said. "Soon, a man called her up claiming to be from the bank and asked her to download an app for the...