Agartala: Tripura police have sounded an alert against cyber fraud in UPI payment platforms.
According to the officials, the cyber crime unit of the state’s police has recently come across some incidents where the fraudster sends a certain amount of money using UPI apps and asks the recipient to return the money stating that the transaction was made inadvertently.
“It has been found that as soon as the money is returned, the UPI ID gets hacked and bank accounts linked with it get emptied in repeated transactions within a few minutes but when it comes to the notice of police, it becomes difficult to trace the link as the fraudsters changing the numbers immediately after every successful attempt,” a Tripura police official said.
The cyber crime unit also issued an advisory and urged the people to return the money in cash in front of the local police station if such an incident happened to any individual from any unknown or unwanted source. “They are very sharp in their methods of defrauding people and initially they play the victim card to con the subject. To tackle such types of crimes and fraud attempts, there is a national intelligence network of the cyber crime units of all the state police which keeps sharing new updates pertaining to such crimes to enable the police across the country against such frauds. Whenever we see a red flag waved in the intelligence network, an advisory is issued. Cases related to such crimes do not necessarily take place in one particular state. All the modus operandi are studied very carefully to prevent such cases from,” the official said.
The police said if anyone faces such a situation, he or she should ask the person who transferred the money to go to the local police station with valid ID and receive the cash. The cyber crime unit also alerted the public over the new scam in the garb of PAN card and Aadhaar link.
“We have observed that some fake websites have come up that uses the Aadhaar and PAN data for making proxy transactions in someone’s account. People are hereby advised to link their PAN and Aadhaar card using the government website only,” the advisory added.
