City chemists feel the pinch of online fraud; Police ask people to check accounts first Mysore/Mysuru: As the surge in cybercrime, particularly online fraud cases, continues unabated, even the chemists (medical store vendors) have fallen prey to this growing menace. According to M. Raju, the President of the Mysuru City and District Retail Chemists Association,…
CEN Cops book cases; Septuagenarian man, engineer and youth among victims Mysore/Mysuru: In three separate cases, fraudsters have cheated several lakhs of rupees to gullible people, by allegedly luring them with attractive offers online. The cases have been registered at Cyber, Economics and Narcotics (CEN) Crime Police Station in the city. K. Chandrashekar, 77 years…
Mysore/Mysuru: With cyber crimes increasing day by day, the District Police have urged those cheated online to immediately call Helpline number 1930 and lodged a complaint. Pointing out that those educated were losing lakhs of rupees to cyber crimes, the Cops said that cases of cheating through social media were also being registered besides stating…
Mysore/Mysuru: In separate cases pertaining to online frauds, three women have been cheated of a total sum of Rs. 2,15,634 in city. In the first case, a 34-year-old woman, who received a message on her phone asking her to update her Aadhaar number to her bank mobile app, has lost Rs. 24,987 to fraudsters. The…
Mysore/Mysuru: In separate cases, two women and a teacher from city, have lost a total of Rs. 3,53,497 to online fraudsters. In the first case, 36-year-old C. Meghana, a resident of T.K. Layout, received a call on her mobile phone where the caller, in the name of her friend informed her of sending a gift….
Mysore/Mysuru: In separate cases, a doctor, engineer and an elderly lady have lost a total of Rs. 5,78,974 to online fraudsters. In the first case, a city doctor has lost Rs. 2,98,979 to a fraudster, who had agreed to sell medical equipment at a lesser price. The doctor, who was cheated, is Dr. N.S. Ravichandra…
Mysore/Mysuru: A software engineer, who wanted to buy a second hand car, has been cheated of Rs. 2.90 lakh. The person, who was cheated, is 34-year-old M. Manoj, a resident of Ramakrishnanagar ‘H’ Block in city. Manoj, who wanted to buy a second hand car, was browsing through a second hand car dealer’s website, where…
Mysore/Mysuru: Fraudsters, who convinced a student that he could earn Rs. 3,000 a day by working online from home and got Rs. 3.84 lakh transferred to their bank account, have cheated him and the student has lost his money to online fraudsters. The student, who lost his money, is 19-year-old Aiyappa Chalavadi, a native of…
Gundlupet: A nurse, who fell for a message sent to her mobile phone which offered online work from home in return for thousands of rupees as earnings, has lost Rs. 14.96 lakh besides undergoing blackmail from those who had offered her online work. Lalitha, a Staff Nurse at Gundlupet Government Hospital and a resident of…
CEN Police Station Sub-Inspector M.L. Siddesh at MGP interaction Mysuru, Apr. 18 (BCT)- Among the many cases of online frauds that have been detected by the Mysuru City Cybercrime, Economic Offences and Narcotics (CEN) Police, a few cases stand out where the victims save penny by penny but ultimately lose the hard-earned money to fraudsters….
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