India is the country with the second-largest number of active internet users. However, most of them are not well-informed of internet fraud, which leaves them vulnerable to scammers.
In comparison to 2023, when it recovered Rs 76.85 crore, the Haryana Police said that it had recovered almost Rs 268.40 crore from cybercriminals in 2024. Compared to the previous year, this represents three times as much money recovered from scammers in 2024.In comparison to 2023, the number of cyber fraud cases reported doubled in 2024, and the number of arrests also rose significantly. Police filed 2,747 cases against cybercriminals in 2023 and 2,165 cases against them in 2022, compared to 5,511 cases in 2024.
Haryana police have made the following recent arrests for cybercrimes:
Four people have been arrested by the Gurugram police for defrauding others under the pretext of social media iPhone sales. They were found to have six cell phones, an ATM card, two bank passbooks, and Rs 18,000 in cash.An FIR was filed after the police claimed to have received a complaint on January 29 about a Rs 30,000 fraud. The accused were named as Mukesh, also known as Rohit, Sunny, Aniket, and Hitesh Jangra.
For defrauding customers by pretending to be online hotel booking services, the Nuh police arrested two brothers. From them, authorities have retrieved seven fake SIM cards and five cell phones. The defendants were identified as Haseen and Wasim Akram, who lived in Nuh’s Upla Mohalla. The two would use ATM cards and bank accounts they had opened using fictitious documents to withdraw the stolen money.
Six people have been arrested by the Faridabad cyber police for defrauding people of their money by offering them online jobs on Telegram. The accused were Jeetu Kumawat and Kamal, who lived in Nagaur, Rajasthan; Raju Ram and Subhash, who lived in Sikar; and Kunal Khamani and Heeralal, who lived in Jaipur and they were arrested from Jaipur.
After allegedly defrauding an Ambala resident out of Rs 26.57 lakh, the Ambala police have arrested seven members of an interstate gang of cybercriminals. The accused were Sumit, Narendra, Harshit, Shailendra, Gaurav, Hardik, and Devesh. They originally operated out of Gurugram and were from Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and Gurugram.
In a fraud case involving more than Rs 64 lakh, the Gurugram cyber police arrested seven persons. A top police official stated that Rs 20 lakh had been frozen from the fraudulent sum. According to the police, on February 27, a woman filed a complaint alleging that the accused had deceived her by promising her high stock market gains. A case was subsequently filed at the Cyber Crime (East) police station.
