Due to the corona epidemic, people have started working more on computers. Along with this, the trend of digital payment has also increased a lot. In such a situation, online cyber thieves have become active.
Nowadays, cases of online fraud are heard every day. Due to the corona epidemic, people have started working more on computers. Along with this, the trend of digital payment has also increased a lot. In such a situation, online cyber thieves have become active. Thieves are fearlessly stealing money from people’s accounts by extracting personal and sensitive information.
Government issued helpline
The government has informed the people that in case of loss of money due to cyber fraud, you can call the helpline number 155260. Apart from this, people can register their complaints online at the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal https://cybercrime.gov.in sitting at home .
In this way the criminals persuade
Let us tell you that in such incidents criminals contact you through email, chat room, job website or blog. These criminals persuade you to take money in the bank account in exchange for an attractive commission. After getting your approval, the criminal transfers that money to your account.
This is how the helpline system works
- In case of cyber fraud, call the helpline number 155260, which is operated by the police of the concerned state.
- The police operator answering the call notes the details of the fraudulent transaction and the information of the caller victim, and records this information as a ticket on the Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System.
- After this, these tickets are delivered to the respective banks, wallets, merchants etc., depending on whether they are the victim’s bank or the bank/wallet in which the fraudulent money has gone.
- The victim is informed about this complaint with the help of a message. Which contains his complaint number as well as instructions to use this number to complete details of the fraud within 24 hours on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NSC).Submit at https://cybercrime.gov.in/ ).
- Now the concerned bank, which can view this ticket on the dashboard of their reporting portal, checks this details in their internal system.
- If the fraud money is still there, the bank stops it. If that fraud money has gone to another bank, then that ticket is passed on to the next bank where the money has gone.
- This process is repeated until the money is saved from falling into the hands of the fraudsters.
