Cyber criminals duped people of Rs 4 crore in 13 months, reckon cops

CHANDIGARH: The coronavirus pandemic has quickened the pace towards digital transactions — and online frauds. The city can vouch for that. While there is no official figure, police estimate residents lost Rs 4 crore to cyber crime cheats in more than13 months from July 1, 2020, to August 15 this year.

Police dealt with roughly 8,000 complaints. As many as 3,408 of them came between January and July 20 alone. Shoppers and buyers and sellers of second-hand goods topped the list of the conned, that is 568, in the more than six months. Most of these people tried to buy goods online or sell them on classifieds website like OLX but ended up losing their some of their hard-earned earnings.