New Delhi: Sixty-two per cent of the cybercrime complaints lodged in 2020 were related to financial frauds, police said in a statement here.
The Delhi Police said a spurt was witnessed in incidents of cybercrime during the coronavirus lockdown.
Twenty-four per cent of the complaints were related to the social media, primarily online harassment, and the rest 14 per cent were related to crimes such as hacking and data theft.
Among the complaints of various cybercrime received, the predominant ones are of online financial frauds, accounting for around 62 per cent of the total, the statement said.
A perusal of the complaints received by the Delhi Police reveals that cases of extortion by morphing videos of people, especially related to sexual conduct, have increased manifold.
Several cases were registered in matters related to tech support, immigration and IRS call centre scams and 125 persons were arrested. These fake call centres were being used to cheat foreign nationals.
The Delhi Police has busted five such fake call centres that were operating at a big level from Moti Nagar, Rajouri Garden and Peeragarhi and arrested 125 persons, including the owners or managers who were operating these, the statement said.