Cyber Crime Alert While online transaction of money is for the convenience of the people, on the other hand, cyber criminals are harming people by misusing it. Chatting with unknown people on Google Pay, Phone Pay and Paytm can empty your account.
Moradabad, (Asif Ali). Cyber Crime Alert: While online transaction of money is for the convenience of the people, on the other hand cyber criminals are harming the people by misusing it. That chatting with unknown people on Google Pay, Phone Pay and Paytm can empty your account.
Fraudsters are luring people by sending fake messages through this. Usually people get confused by getting confused and start chatting after accepting the request. Cybercriminals are also working to win trust by sending them fake messages to send money to the account during chatting.
Usually, cyber criminals cheat people by calling them and posing as bank officers to cheat people online. Apart from this, other people were evacuating the account of people by cheating in many ways. But now they have started chatting with Google Pay, Phone Pay and Paytm, the online facility for transacting money.
First, he sends the acceptance to the concerned mobile number and starts chatting as soon as he receives it. During this, he sends fake messages to transfer money in the middle of chatting. Then they start talking by calling and pretending to be acquainted.
If during the course of cyber thugs keep tampering on Google Pay, Phone Pay or Paytm, then they easily transfer money to their account.
Do not even accept requests: Cyber cell in-charge Sanjay Kumar says that no one sends request nor asks for PIN number to send money to the account. Whereas cyber thugs start money transactions by sending requests on Google Pay, Phone Pay or Paytm. Therefore, do not OK the request of any unknown person.
We do the exact message to send money to the account: Just as a text message comes from the registered mobile number bank after depositing or withdrawing money in the bank account, cyber thugs send the same message during the chatting. So that the person feels that money has been deposited in his account. By falling in this bluff, they take losses by tampering with Google Pay, Paytm or Phone Pay.
these cases
Case-1: Sumer Singh, a resident of Gajraula of Amroha district, had received a request on Google Pay two months ago. He accepted and started chatting. During this, a message was received to send two thousand rupees to his account. The cyber criminal took a hoax and transferred 42 thousand rupees from his account to his account through Google Pay.
Case-2: Zakiuddin, a resident of Mohalla Ahmed Nagar of Amroha Nagar, had received a message on Paytm last month to deposit five thousand rupees in his account. He got a call from an unknown number and called himself an acquaintance. When he tampered with the Paytm account at the behest of the cyber thugs, he lost his own 80 thousand rupees.
Case-3: Sarfaraz Ahmed, a resident of Zoya, chatted on the phone on November 11 by accepting a request for an unknown number. The cybercriminals first sent a message of Rs 500, pretending to put money in the account, posing as acquaintances. After that Sarfaraz transferred the money by clicking on the pay button on the request money option. He was also given a loss of 20 thousand by cyber thugs.
What officials say: Sanjay Kumar, in-charge of cyber cell of Amroha, told that to avoid cyber fraud, do not accept requests from unknown numbers on Google Pay, Phone Pay or Paytm. Do not even chat with any unknown person there. On accepting the request, money is deducted from the account. In case of cyber fraud, immediately lodge a complaint on 155260 toll free number. Sanjay Kumar, Cyber Cell in-charge.
