The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Central Government, RBI and CBI and others and sought their answers in the case of fraud of about Rs 23 crore by keeping a 78-year-old retired banker under digital arrest for a month. The bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi has issued notice on the petition filed by Naresh Malhotra.

In the petition, a request has been made to direct the concerned banks to deposit the defrauded amount of Rs 22.92 crore in the accounts of the petitioner. Malhotra has made Kotak Mahindra Bank, HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, IndusInd Bank, City Union Bank and Yes Bank as parties in the case.

Cyber ​​criminals had declared themselves as ED-CBI officers

Cyber ​​criminals, posing as officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and CBI, defrauded a retired banker of South Delhi’s Gulmohar Park area of ​​Rs 23 crore by allegedly keeping him under digital arrest for about a month.

In this regard, an official said that the accused allegedly told the victim that his Aadhaar card was related to drug trafficking, terrorism financing and Pulwama terror attack. After this, on the pretext of investigation, the accused kept him in a state of ‘digital arrest’ in his flat.

What did the police tell?

Police said, ‘The fraudsters instructed her not to leave the house and forced her to transfer her savings to various bank accounts over a period of one month.’

Realizing that he was cheated, Malhotra lodged a complaint on the National Cyber ​​Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP) on September 19 last year, after which the case was handed over to the ‘Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations’ (IFSO) unit.

Police said that an FIR has been registered in this case and transactions from various bank accounts related to the fraudulently obtained amount of Rs 12.11 crore have been frozen.

Cyber ​​thug cases have increased rapidly in the last few years. There have been many such cases, in which people were arrested digital by becoming fake police, CBI officers and millions of rupees were cheated. Thugs are making people their victims by accessing store information on the Internet. However, people who do not have internet are also making them their victims. In such a situation, the question arises that how do they have our knowledge without internet? Apart from this, people who do not have internet, how are they being hunted. Let us tell you how the thugs are also making those who do not use internet their victims?

How to make people hunting without internet?

Even if you do not use internet, thugs can comfortably make you a victim. Actually, for this they raise your data from another place. In this, they leak data from social sites, hospitals, shops or government offices etc. or remove data somehow. Then we use this data for cheating with you. The data of many people is also taken out from the phone of one of their relatives, such as your mobile number, address etc. they take out. In this way, even if you do not use internet, even thugs make you cyber hunting.

How can you keep yourself safe?

In today’s era, if you do not keep yourself safe, then you can be a victim of cyber fraud. To avoid this, if you are using email or any online service, then try that its password is very strong. Do not accidentally keep your name, mobile number or date of work password by mistake. Try to always use two-factor authentication. If you get an unknown mail or message and any link has been given in it, then do not try to open it by mistake. If someone is calling you by calling that I am speaking a police officer or another officer. If he says that you are arrested or your Aadhaar or other document is wrongly used, then ignore such calls. Always keep your phone updated. If a security feature update comes, then do it, this keeps your phone safe.

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