Haryana police has arrested a cybercriminal from Bihar who was pretending to be a foreign relative of the victim and committed a fraud of Rs 3 lakh with a resident of Kurukshetra district.
The police spokesperson said here on Saturday that as soon as the victim realised that he had been cheated, he filed a complaint immediately on the Cyber Crime Portal. The State Cyber Police Station in Panchkula registered a case and started investigating it. During the investigation, the cyber police arrested the accused who had committed the fraud by posing as a foreign relative.
He also said that in this mode of operation, fraudsters call victims randomly and make them believe that they are their foreign relatives who are in trouble and need money
to get out of the situation. The victims, scared of the situation, transfer the money to the accounts provided by the fraudsters. This is exactly what happened in this case, where the victim, Hardeep Singh, received a call from a cybercriminal posing as his foreign relative.
The suspect was arrested from Bihar, where he had transferred the money from the victim’s account. The investigation revealed that he was a part of a larger cyber fraud network.
The police advises people to be careful and not to trust calls or messages from unknown numbers or any suspect posing as someone they know.
