Cyber Fraud: A case of cyber fraud in the name of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana has come to light in Kaushambi district of Uttar Pradesh. Cyber criminals targeted a person using the name of a government scheme and withdrew Rs 1 lakh 2 thousand 999 from his bank account. On the complaint of the victim, the police have registered an FIR and started investigating the case.
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The matter is of Shahpur Tikri village of Karari police station area. Pawan Kumar, who lives here, was allegedly sent an APK file in the name of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana by cyber thugs. Seeing the name associated with the government scheme, the victim trusted it. After this, cyber criminals withdrew a huge amount from his bank account.
Pawan Kumar complained to the police after getting information that Rs 1,02,999 was missing from his account. Based on his complaint, the police have registered a case. At present the matter is being investigated. However, it is not yet clear through which medium the APK file was sent and what technique the criminals used to commit the fraud.
After this incident, once again the need to be alert about cyber frauds being committed in the name of government schemes has come to the fore. The general advice of cyber security experts is not to download APK files received from unknown numbers and get information about any government scheme only through official channels.