Noida: With the arrest of two men allegedly linked to Jamtara-based cyber cheats, the Uttar Pradesh police on Friday busted an online racket in which conmen duped people by taking remote access of their mobile phones. The cyber cheats are using applications which give them access of mobile phones from remote location, including access to one-time passwords (OTPs) being sent on a user's number without them realising it. In the wake of the finding, the Cyber Wing of the state police has urged people not to use "toll free helpline numbers" of banks or other services published on Google under the "ad" category.
Officials of the Cyber Police Station, Noida, have arrested two men, identified as Mohammed Riyaz and Liaq Ahmed, linked to the gang of thugs based in Jamtara, Jharkhand, Superintendent of Police (UP Cyber Police) Triveni Singh said.
He said the accused were held as part of a probe into a Rs 5.97 lakh online fraud with daughter of a retired CISF official, who lives in Ghaziabad."The daughter lives abroad. Her father approached the police in January this year with a complaint that his daughter wanted to start internet banking facility of her ICICI bank account for which she used a toll free number of the bank given on a Google search page," Singh said. (Agencies)
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