Udaipur, October 10, 2024 - Two cases of cyber fraud have come to light after complaints were lodged with the police. Under Operation Antivirus campaign initiated by Jaipur Police Headquarters to curb cybercrimes, Udaipur SP Yogesh Goyal directed Additional SP Umesh Ojha and Deputy SP Kailash Boriwal to investigate both cases.

The first complaint was lodged by Rehana Jaroli, a resident of Ambamata, Udaipur. She reported that she visited the Amazon app to browse some products for online shopping. After checking out some items, she received three OTPs for transactions from her AU Bank account without any actual transaction from her side. Shortly after, she received messages on her phone about debits from her account amounting to Rs 36,750, Rs 22,050 and Rs 440, totalling Rs 59,240.

On suspecting that her mobile phone had been hacked she checked her Amazon account. She found that Reliance e-jewellery gift cards had been purchased fraudulently using her account. She immediately filed a complaint at the Ambamata police station.

In the second case, complainant Mohammad Saleem, a resident of Chhipa Colony, Ambamata, reported that he received a call from a girl claiming to be from Axis Bank, stating that she was calling to cancel the security charge on his Axis Bank credit card. She asked him to open a link on Google which he did and thereafter submitted the requested details as instructed. Soon after he started receiving OTPs and messages from the bank and a total of Rs 87,407 were debited on his credit card.

Station in-charge Dr Hanwant Singh Rajpurohit and his team took swift action. In the Jaroli case, a complaint was immediately lodged on the cyber portal and investigation initiated. Police got in touch with the nodal officers of Amazon and other related platforms and had the deducted amount recovered from the fraudsters' accounts.

Similarly, in the second case a complaint was lodged on the cyber portal and probe revealed that the money had been transferred to a merchant app. The team contacted the nodal officers of the NoBroker merchant app and had the amount withheld. Following continuous communications via email, the entire amount was recovered from the fraudsters' account.