Chandigarh, Haryana Police has recognized 91 financial institution branches within the state the place suspected ‘mule accounts’ are being operated by cybercriminals for large-scale transactions, as a part of its crackdown towards cybercrime.
Amongst these, 26 branches are in Gurugram and 24 in Nuh district, officers stated on Tuesday.
In response to an official assertion, police groups have initiated phased verification, inspection, and authorized motion after figuring out these branches.
Particular groups of the Cyber Crime Wing are conducting an in depth examination of the data of those branches to seek out out whether or not negligence or collusion by financial institution workers is facilitating cybercriminals.
“The groups are scrutinising lapses in KYC compliance, procedural violations in account opening, the function of financial institution workers, and any signal of negligence,” the assertion stated.
As a part of the drive, raids had been carried out in Karnal and Yamunanagar districts on Tuesday, throughout which financial institution data had been completely checked and suspicious accounts examined.
In Yamunanagar, groups of the Cyber Crime Wing traced a present account of a agency that was formally shut down in March, but transactions value ₹43 lakh had been carried out afterwards.
Nationwide, eight complaints have been registered towards this account, the assertion additional stated.
One other present account was discovered to have been opened on a false deal with, and transactions value ₹2 crore had been made in simply three months. This account has 33 complaints filed towards it throughout the nation.
“The function of account holders and the financial institution workers involved are underneath scanner… This operation won’t stay confined to only two districts. Related raids will likely be prolonged to different suspicious financial institution branches within the coming days,” the assertion stated.
Haryana Police chief Shatrujeet Kapur on Tuesday stated a strong and multi-pronged technique has been devised to clamp down on cybercrime.
This consists of strict monitoring of financial institution branches, speedy evaluation of suspicious transactions, common raids, and guaranteeing adherence to banking rules, he stated.
The DGP emphasised that defending residents’ hard-earned cash from falling into the lure of cybercriminals is a prime precedence. Alongside police, banks have equal duty, and therefore accountability of financial institution officers and cyber nodal officers is being fastened, he harassed.
Inspector Common, Cyber, Shibas Kabiraj stated cybercriminals typically pose as financial institution officers, law enforcement officials, authorities brokers, or representatives of reputed corporations to make fraudulent calls, ship suspicious hyperlinks, or trick folks into downloading suspicious apps.
“In such conditions, residents must not ever share their OTP, ATM PIN, UPI PIN, passwords, or private paperwork like Aadhaar and PAN, nor scan any unknown hyperlink or QR code,” he stated.
Kabiraj stated banks and authorities businesses by no means ask for cash transfers or delicate data over the cellphone. “Residents should keep alert to rising scams equivalent to ‘digital arrests, the place fraudsters intimidate victims over video calls whereas posing as regulation enforcement officers, one thing no real police or company ever does.”
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