Mumbai Police registers 1,205 cases of cybercrime between January to March

In a major concern, the cybercrime cases have increased by 26.57 per cent in the past three months compared to last year in Mumbai.

This year, between January to March, 1,205 cases have been registered by the Mumbai police, of which 92 were detected and 135 persons arrested. Meanwhile, last year in January to March, 952 cases were registered and 61 were detected with 84 arrests.

As per reports, most cases of cybercrime registered this year were related to online cheating (606), followed by bank card fraud (394) and obscene email cases (76).

After an overall analysis, online fraud has been classified into eight components. The analysis has revealed that most cases are related to job fraud (65), online purchases (48), fake websites (31), investments (23), loans (18), customs gifts (17) and crypto-currency frauds (8).

Data has also revealed that cases of these frauds have increased this year as compared to last year in the first quarter. While cases of insurance/ provident fund fraud, matrimonial fraud and loan fraud have seen a diminishing trend this year.

In addition, this year 38 cases of fake social media profile/ morphing emails/ SMS were registered, followed by sextortion (17), hacking (13), phishing/man-in-middle attack/spoofing mail (13), data theft (7) and pornography (3).

There had been zero detection in cases of tampering of source code, customs gift fraud, insurance/provident fund fraud, matrimonial fraud, data theft and crypto-currency fraud, statistics revealed.