A Presentation on Social media crimes where we know how social media crimes happens

1. Social Media Crimes
(Media References)
PRESENTED BY:
ABHINAV PRAKASH PATHAK

2. I Find 3 cases on social media crimes , so
here I share screenshots and what the
cases was about.

4. Case1: Identity Theft
A 35-year-old Sus resident recently discovered that he was the victim of possible identity theft —
someone had used his government-issued documents to avail themselves of multiple loans totaling Rs
8.22 lakh.
On April 16, the man got a phone call from a person — supposedly from a private finance firm in
Vimannagar — who wanted to know if he had applied for a personal loan from the firm. “I had told him
about my home loan [with a bank], when he said I had taken a personal loan from his company. When
he told me my PAN and asked for an OTP, I disconnected the call,” the man, who has since lodged a
police complaint,
The following day, the man contacted the firm. “The woman who answered the call told me there was
no loan linked to my mobile number. When I gave her my PAN, she said a loan of Rs 1.4 lakh was
taken using my details,” the complainant The man spoke to his wife, a bank employee, who helped him
check his credit score. They found that someone used his Aadhaar and PAN to take loans ranging from
Rs 5,000 to Rs 2.89 lakh from nine private firms in Pune, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, and New Delhi
between February 3 and 10 this year.

6. The complainant immediately approached the Hinjewadi police, who directed him to the cybercrime cell.
“I was given an email address to file a complaint. The next day, I took a copy of the email to the police
station and submitted a complaint application,” he said.
“I managed to find the email addresses of six financial firms. I emailed them, but only two responded,”
he said.
One firm emailed him copies of the Aadhaar and PAN submitted for the loan. “In both cases, the
fraudster had submitted my Aadhaar and PAN details with someone else’s photograph,” the complainant
said.
The complainant later made a video call to one firm in the presence of the police. “An official told me that
they had sanctioned the loan though video KYC and that the person who had applied was someone
else,” he said.
The Hinjewadi police registered an FIR on Wednesday. “I have even filed a complaint with the consumer
court,” the complainant said.
Sub-inspector Govind Pawar said the police traced the fraudster to Kolkata. “We found that the suspect
transferred Rs 3 lakh to a private bank account in Kolkata. We are trying to ascertain how the fraudster
got hold of these documents,” Pawar said.

8. Case 2: Online Dating Scam
A gang of eight who cheated the public and extracted money out of them from fake dating websites
were arrested on Friday by Cyber Crime Police. Police have also seized a laptop, 31 Samsung mobile
phones, six documents pertaining to the crime, and 12 ATM cards.
According to the Commissioner of Police, Cyberabad, police, VC Sajjanar, the gang created many
websites and extracted money from the public mentioning various kinds of fees. The accused persons
have been arrested and identified as Bijay Kumar Sah, Binod Kumar, Mohamad Nur Alam Ansari, Deepa
Haldar, and Shikha Halder. Three others named Santhu Das, Amit Paul, and Sushank Kumar Sah are still
on the run.
The issue came into the light after the Police received a complaint from a person stating that he was
assured of a male escort job himself in the Indian Escort Service Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata after he registered
himself on the dating website.

9. The complainant said that post-registration, he received calls from various numbers and
that he assured of a male escort job, for which he was asked to pay various amounts.
"Believing the accused, the complainant paid them a staggering amount of ₹ 13,82,643
into their accounts towards things like joining fees, product purchase fees, late fees,
GST, insurance fee, refund amount fee, and other fees He was again asked to
pay ₹ 1,50,000 for bank clearance upon which the complainant realized that he was
being cheated and then requested police legal action," Sajjanar said.
Based on the complaints, cases were registered with the Cyber Crime Police, which
worked out the clues sent a team to Siliguri in West Bengal and a raid was conducted at
call centers where the accused were working.
A case is registered with the requisite sections and further investigation is underway.

11. Case 3 : Cyber Stalker
A 25-year-old man was arrested on Friday for allegedly stalking a minor girl in Delhi-NCR
and later uploading her morphed pictures on social media, the police said.
The accused, Bharat Khatar, had uploaded abusive contents and nude pictures of the girl
on Instagram after having a heated discussion with the girl's friend on Instagram, they
said.
Khatar - who works in an event management company - was caught from his Faridabad
home after cops received information on his internet activity and location from the social
media sites, they added.

12. Two mobile phones used in crime have been seized.
He has disclosed that earlier he had heated discussion with the
complainant's friend on Instagram. Later he created a fake profile of the
complainant girl to take revenge. Thereafter, he sent abusive
contents, nude pictures and later threatened and abused the complainant,"
a police official said.
The accused is "habitual of using WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram for
making girl friends by creating fake profiles", the police said, adding that a
similar case had been filed against him at the Faridabad Cyber Police
Station.