Ahmedabad: CID cyber crime recovers Rs 19.22 L lost to online fraud victims in state

The Cyber Crime Cell under the Gujarat Crime Investigation Department (CID) Crime and Railways has prevented online financial frauds on 27 instances in the past 17 days and managed to recover Rs 19.22 lakh to the victims across Gujarat who had fallen into the trap of online scammers.

As per information released by the CID Crime and Railways department, from July 2 to July 17, the vigilance team of Cyber Crime Cell managed to contact nodal agencies of banks and e-wallets to freeze the bank accounts of alleged scammers and return the money to the victims from Ahmedabad, Bharuch, Gandhinagar, Rajkot, Vadodara, Panchmahal, Mehsana, Gir Somnath, Kutch Bhuj, Surat city, Surat rural, Ankleshwar town, Anand, Banaskantha, Surendranagar, Kheda Nadiad and Narmada.