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Investigation
Bringing
Tech-Savvy
to Book
Cyber Criminals
Times have evolved; so have crimes. 2000. The sleuths from this Cell have former employment for illtreating her.
With the advancement of technology
and the outbreak of Internet, a new
form of crime has erupted on the
scene. With the information highway
having entered almost every
middleclass home in the form of
Internet, the society at large is at
increasing risk of being affected by
Cybercrime. It is far more sinister
than the conventional crime and as
such harder to detect because the
perpetrators are educated and techsavvy.
Cyber crimes include
siphoning of funds through internet
banking through credit and debit
solved many crimes since then.
Following are some of the cases they
solved, to cite a few.
• A reputed financial institution
registered a crime stating that some
persons perpetrated it through
misleading emails ostensibly
emanating from ICICI Bank's email
ID. It was done to defraud the
customers by securing details of their
debit cards required for e-banking.
Investigation led to the accused
located at the southern city of
Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh.
• An engineering student from Pune
was arrested on various counts of
cheating and forgery for duping a
Payment Gateway.
• A hacker was arrested for hacking
into a financial website. The 10th
Pass youngster was a computer
addict. Then using various
techniques, such as obtaining a
password file, he gets into the
administrator's shoes and hacks the
website and to see the entire directory
structure of that website.
card frauds. There is also enough
evidence of information systems
being used in drug trafficking,
gambling, money laundering and
weapons trade just to name a few.
• A lady complainant started
receiving obscene and threatening
emails over a period of two years.
The email sender, who happened to
be a woman, was traced and
The Cyber Crime Cell arrested a 52-
year-old man, Chairman and
Managing Director of a a company
based in Chennai for cheating
The Mumbai Police was quick to arrested. On interrogation it was thousands of people from Mumbai
recognize the gravity of this threat. It found to be a case of a disgruntled by promising them a higher monthly
launched the Cyber Crime employee taking revenge on a senior income of Rs 15,000 for their
Investigation Cell on 18 December colleague in the organization of her deposits of Rs 4,000-6000.
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