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How cyber crime became region specific

By IANS | Updated: December 27, 2020 10:17 IST

New Delhi, Dec 27 While analyzing the modus operandi of the cyber frauds, the Cyber Crime Unit of ...

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New Delhi, Dec 27 While analyzing the modus operandi of the cyber frauds, the Cyber Crime Unit of Delhi Police extensively studied and analysed the various complaints of cyber crimes and their trends and concluded that there are various regions throughout the country that have specialised in different types of cyber crimes.

"QR-Code based payment fraud on OLX or Just Dial for example are specifically linked to regions like Haryana-Rajasthan-Uttar Pradesh. While the UPI hacking fraud in the name of KYC verification, SIM upgradation and token payment is the modus operandi of cyber frauds from Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal," said DCP Cyber Crime Anyesh Roy.

It was also observed that the cyber frauds from North Rajasthan, and South Bihar are predominantly active in cyber crime like making fake websites on government schemes, e-commerce and public services.

Also, it was noticed that the cyber frauds from NCR region

( With inputs from IANS )

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