Telangana: Cyber criminals have free run in Covid-19 lockdown

HYDERABAD: India is under lockdown and the entire world is observing social distancing to arrest the spread of coronavirus. Save personnel from emergency services, none is permitted on the roads. With most people confined to their homes and probably hooked on to the Internet, cyber fraudsters are having a field day.
On March 24, a 28-year-old Army personnnel, I Arun Kumar from Golconda, lodged a complaint with cyber crime police alleging that he was duped of over Rs 70,000 by a fraudster on an online classifieds platform.
He claimed he saw an advertisement on e-classifides portal OLX about sale of a Mahindra Scorpio vehicle for Rs 1.9 lakh. Arun contacted the person who posted the advertisement and the latter introduced himself as Ajay Yadav, an IAF officer from Secunderabad. The army man made a deal with the fraudster to buy the Scorpio for Rs 1.7 lakh.