Beware! Cyber crime net is expanding

Posted: Monday, May 28, 2007 at 0205 hrs IST
Updated: Monday, May 28, 2007 at 0205 hrs IST

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: In April 2005, former employees of a Pune-based BPO firm duped US citizens of around Rs 1.5 crore from their Citibank account.

In June 2005, the tabloid Sun, in a sting operation purchased the bank account details of 1,000 Britons for about $5.50 each from an employee of Gurgaon-based BPO company.

In June 2006, a Bangalore-based BPO employee sold the credit card information of UK-based customers to a group of scamsters, who used the information to siphon off nearly Rs 1.8 crore from their bank accounts.

Today, after more than two years, these frauds and scamsters continue to operate and it is the IT hubs of the country—Bangalore, Pune and Gurgaon—that are slowly taking on the notoriety of being the cyber crime centres of the country. The only difference: Change in modus operandi.

If earlier it was the BPO employees who facilitated these frauds, now it is through the internet that these crimes are committed. Take for instance the case of Rahul. This Bangalore-based techie received an ‘official’ email from the private bank where he had a salary account requesting him to verify his login details as part of a server upgrade. “You must renew the services or it will be deactivated and deleted,” the mail said.

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