Cybercrime Alert | This Can Happen to Anyone - Stay Safe

Hello to my fellow community members,

Friends, today I will share with you an incident that really scared me. After hearing about it, I started thinking what I would do if something like this happened to me.

So I began doing some research. I am going to talk about an incident where my friend bank account balance went into negative.

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He found out about this when he was scanning a QR code at a shop to make a payment, and the bank declined the transaction. When he checked his account, he saw that his balance was -4000.

My friend became very worried, and when he checked his emails and messages, he found out that a fraud case had been filed against him and it was not a small case. It was a fraud case worth seven lakh rupees.

When my friend spoke to the bank, he found out that he had nothing to do with the fraud. He was number 5 in the chain of transactions. That means the person who was actually scammed was the first one, and my friend was the fifth person in the chain.

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The bank staff spoke to him and said that until they receive an update from the cyber department, the account will not be unfrozen. As the bank cannot unfreeze the account until the cyber department gives them permission to do so.

Now friends, when I did some research, I found out that this is not just a one time case. Many people are facing the same situation. Innocent people end up getting their accounts frozen even though they have done nothing wrong.
They suffer for something they are not even involved in.

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And friends, when they try to get their account unfrozen, the officials, whether they are in the police or the cyber department, ask them for bribes.
The amount of bribe they demand is so high that you cannot even imagine it.

I found this out when I myself searched on YouTube about these incidents, and I came across many sting operations done by normal citizens. They had clearly recorded everything while it was happening. In some of those videos, they even recorded police officers asking for bribes.

Now friends, this can happen to any one of us. So I would just say, keep your money diversified. Do not keep a large amount of money in a single bank account. And if you have options, then use multiple bank accounts.

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Friends, cyber crimes are increasing day by day, and maybe the officials in the cyber department are doing their work for our safety. But in the middle of this, innocent people are suffering.

So I believe they should come up with a new framework or a new method that does not trouble innocent people and still helps them reach the real culprits.
That is all for this blog.