Cyber Crime In Andhra Pradesh

A final-year engineering student was on Monday arrested by the cyber crime police here for making purchases by obtaining details of other people's debit cards.

A software professional, who allegedly created a fake Facebook account of a married woman and posted obscene information and morphed images in order to defame and spoil her matrimonial life, was arrested from Karimnagar district, police said on Wednesday.

The number of cyber-crime cases has seen a rise in Andhra Pradesh for the third year in a row even as the state police gears up to complete training of its Inspectors and DSPs level officers to investigate such offences, by the end of 2013.

A total of 242 cases were referred to the Cyber Crime Cell in Visakhapatnam in the last three years, Police Commissioner J Purnachandra Rao said today.

Cyber-crime cases, especially the Nigerian frauds, phishing and transmission of obscene content in electronic form has seen a rise in the state and also witnessed a two-fold increase in the arrest of cyber offenders in 2011.

In order to upgrade the skills of its personnel dealing with cyber crime, the Andhra Pradesh police have proposed to establish cyber labs in Hyderabad and Cyberabad Commissionerates with the support of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

The cyber crime cell of the Crime Investigation Department of Andhra Pradesh Police has arrested four Nigerians, including two women, from New Delhi for allegedly duping a teacher to the tune of over Rs 45 lakh in a lottery scam.

A final-year engineering student was on Monday arrested by the cyber crime police here for making purchases by obtaining details of other people's debit cards.

A software professional, who allegedly created a fake Facebook account of a married woman and posted obscene information and morphed images in order to defame and spoil her matrimonial life, was arrested from Karimnagar district, police said on Wednesday.

The number of cyber-crime cases has seen a rise in Andhra Pradesh for the third year in a row even as the state police gears up to complete training of its Inspectors and DSPs level officers to investigate such offences, by the end of 2013.

A total of 242 cases were referred to the Cyber Crime Cell in Visakhapatnam in the last three years, Police Commissioner J Purnachandra Rao said today.

Cyber-crime cases, especially the Nigerian frauds, phishing and transmission of obscene content in electronic form has seen a rise in the state and also witnessed a two-fold increase in the arrest of cyber offenders in 2011.

In order to upgrade the skills of its personnel dealing with cyber crime, the Andhra Pradesh police have proposed to establish cyber labs in Hyderabad and Cyberabad Commissionerates with the support of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

The cyber crime cell of the Crime Investigation Department of Andhra Pradesh Police has arrested four Nigerians, including two women, from New Delhi for allegedly duping a teacher to the tune of over Rs 45 lakh in a lottery scam.