Rs 60 crore was defrauded daily in India due to digital arrest

New Delhi: The year 2024 is about to end and this year many people have been victims of cyber fraud. According to a report, there have been victims of cyber fraud of about 85 lakh crore rupees in the whole world including India. This year, only 60 crore rupees have been lost in India. During this time, cyber thugs used different tricks to cheat innocent people. It has the most dangerous and scary digital arrest. Many people lost their lives.

According to the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Center, in the first six months of 2024, Indians lost about 11 thousand crores. Daily 6 thousand Complaints have been recorded on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal. Indians have lost an average of Rs 60 crore daily.

Contacts do contacts through phone calls and messages
According to reports by Global Anti-Scam Alliance, cyber thugs usually used phone calls and messages etc. to cheat people. After this, they implicate the innocent people in their deception and blow up crores of rupees from the bank account. Messaging app Whatsapp, Telegram and Gmail etc. are also used for this.

Fraud of Rs 85.49 lakh crore in the whole world
The report has said that cyber thugs in Asia have carried out a fraud of about 57.1 lakh crore rupees. At the same time, this figure is 85.49 lakh crore rupees in the whole world. Here today we are going to talk about those methods, with the help of which many lakh people of the world have been made victims of cyber fraud.

AI used
AI has been speaking a lot, where many companies all over the world have surprised people with their updated versions and their merits, while many cyber thugs used it to rob people. With the help of AI, the scammers prepared Deepfake Video and Audio, in which they would make a voice of parents, siblings, friends or an acquaintance or prepare a face similar to them. After this, they make videos or audio calls. Then they click on personal details, OTP or a link. After this, they carry out cyber fraud.

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One such popular case of Deepfake is by Sunil Mittal, chairman of Indian Airtel. Cyber ​​thugs prepared a copy of their voice and then many employees of the company took out from their bank account and transferred them to the account stated by the thugs.

Many people also victims from Digital Arrest
One of the most dangerous methods of cyber fraud is Digital Arrest. With the help of digital arrest, many people have been hunted this year. In such a case, the cyber thugs call themselves an official of a high -profile government agency, in which CBI, NIA, ED, Narcotics Control Bureau and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are used.

After this, someone is called and serious allegations are made on him, after which he is said to be arrested. Victim is intimidated and threatened in this case. After this, lakhs of rupees are transferred in the name of saving him or in the name of verification.

Central government started aware campaign
The game of digital arrest was happening on such a large scale that the central government had to start a conscious campaign. After this, the government advertised in the newspaper and public announcements were made. With the help of social media, an attempt was made to reach the people and for this special programs were organized on All India Radio. Along with this, technology companies also gave their support in this, after which Skype now shows warning on the display that Indian law agencies never call through Skype.

The government also issued instructions for the Telecom Service Provider (TSPS). It said that international incoming spoofed calls, which show the number of Indian mobile numbers, should be blocked. According to official data, more than 1700 Skype IDS and 59 thousand WhatsApp accounts have been blocked in the year 2024 due to being used in digital arrest.

Shopping scams also made many people victims
Many people are waiting for a big cell, including Amazon Prime Days and Flipkart Big Billion Days Sale name. During these cells, they make a lot of shopping for themselves and take advantage of discounts, cashback etc. In the year 2024, cyber thugs copied the original website and looted the people to loot the original website and looted the people. Apart from this, many give lure of fake discounts and offers. For this, they use social media channels and groups etc.

A similar case of cyber fraud was revealed, where the premium device was lured to sell cheaply. Here he offered to buy Apple iPhones for Rs 99. This fake website has been cleverly prepared, which looked like the original website. Many people lost their hard earned money in its affair.

Many people cut pockets in Event based scam
Cyber ​​scammers also take advantage of poppers trends and events etc. to cheat people. Scammers try to do fake ticket sales through fake websites, phone calls and messages. Many people come in its deception and lose their millions of rupees.

Many people victims of Investment Scams
With the help of investment scams, scammers have defrauded many people. By contacting the scammers Victim, they make false promises to double by applying money in stock markets, commodities and IPOs of popular companies etc. in no time. After this, they lose up to millions of rupees to Victim. Returns have also been seen in the beginning in many such cases.

Investment scams start fake advertisements on social media websites like Facebook on platforms like Instagram and lure high returns. I4C said that 6.69 lakh SIM cards and 1,32,000 IMEI have been blocked to prevent such fraud.