Locked down Hyderabad residents fall prey to cyberfrauds

HYDERABAD: A woman in her mid-50s, who lost her son in a road accident recently, received around Rs 9 lakh as insurance cover. But she lost all the money to a cyber fraud, when criminals cheated her by offering a gift parcel from abroad as bait.

Hers is not the only case. Several people in Hyderabad, spread across three police commissionerates, have lost a whopping Rs 3.49 crore to cyberfrauds during the lockdown between March 22 and April 30. While crime on a whole has witnessed a drastic fall during the lockdown, there is no let-up in cybercrimes.