CYBER CRIMINAL DUPED BOOKINGON PRETEXT OF HOTEL
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Police Station – Cyber Crime of Chandigarh Police has achieved a major success in arrest of two accused from Mathura, U.P. For this SP Cyber Crime formed a special team of Ps- Cyber Crime under the supervision of DSP/Cyber Crime headed by SHO, PS- Cyber Crime, in Case FIR no. 10 dated 17.7.22 u/s 419,420, 468, 471,120B IPC , PS Cyber Crime, Chandigarh to apprehend the criminals involved in online cheating.
The brief of the case are that PS- Cyber Crime had received a complaint of Jaswinder Singh Bedi , in which he searched the contact number of hotel Shivalik View on Google for room booking . He found a mobile number and he contacted on that number. After that complainant was asked to share OTP received on his mobile for booking confirmation, when he shared the OTP an amount of Rs. 28400 deducted from his IDFC Credit Card..
During the course of investigation accused (1) Ravi S/o Jay Kishan, H.no 51, Vill Kahrika, Tehsil Deeg, Distt Bharatpur, Rajasthan, Age 24 years (2) Lokesh S/o Jay Kishan, H.no 51, Vill Kahrika, Tehsil Deeg, Distt Bharatpur, Rajasthan, Age 23 years have arrested from Mathura, U.P. on 22.07.22 ATM card related to alleged bank account have been recovered from their possession. Accused will be produced before the Hon’ble Court today and their police remand will obtained to arrest the co-accused and to recover the calling numbers.
ADVISORY: As per the latest cyber crime trend, it has been found that in the present scenario , the scammers/ fraudsters has adopted a trend to upload their own mobile numbers on the website/ google search of various existing essential services i.e Hotels, Grocery Shops, Wine Shops, Courier services etc. In this way they are being contacted by the public and they manage to cheat them. It is advised, that do not search the contact number on google or any social media platform, try to obtain the number from reliable sources.
