Bengaluru (Karnataka): In a bid to check cybercrime in Bengaluru, the police have launched a new Cybercrime Incident Report (CIR) system to focus on financial fraud. With this initiative, the police have protected around 48 crore rupees from cybercriminals.
According to Bengaluru city police, financial fraud victims can launch a complaint by calling 112 and the case will be registered as a Cybercrime Incident Report (CIR) and transferred to cybercrime officials in the CIR control room headed by DCP Ishapant. The police will then work with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to freeze the beneficiary’s account within the golden period of two hours.
This initiative was taken by city police commissioner Kamal Pant almost twom months ago, and it has been successful in reducing the number of cybercrime cases in the city and preventing theft from bank accounts.
According to the senior police official, the Cybercrime Incident Report system, much like filing an FIR, is an information-based Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) mechanism being built for the police by a tech firm.
Since, 22 December 2020, 3,175 cases of financial fraud have been registered. Out of these, 1,312 bank accounts have been temporarily confiscated by criminals. But around Rs.48.24 crore saved by police, which was about to go into the wallet of fraud. But this initiative by the Bengaluru police has broken the network of financial frauds.
Robbery in the name of Bank
"On May 24, a case has been reported in which the victim Rajashekhar of Bengaluru was called on the pretext of the bank and said that his bank account needs an updation. After which they asked for a One-time-password, as soon as Rajashekar shared the OTP, Rs 67,999 was debited from his account. Suspicious of this, they immediately called 112. Immediately, the staff blocked the bank account and his money was saved," police said.
Similar cases are being reported in the country and police have saved more than Rs. 48 crores.
In the last six months, the city's southern segment has witnessed the largest financial fraud with 615 bank accounts blocked and the least in the central category with 79 accounts.
Data on blocked bank accounts
City Center Division- 79
North Section- 521
Southeast Division- 595
South Division- 615
White Field- 439
Eastern Section- 439
West Division- 351
Northeast Division- 106
