Cyber crime is a new term for most of the people in india.The laws are also new better say evolving. The sole purpose of this blog is to creat awareness among people of Hubli-Dharwad and try to help them to understand the law
The local police on Saturday arrested one for ATM fraud and recovered Rs 11.3 lakh, several ATM and debit cards and a car from him. Police
said the accused Rajendrakumar Kulkarni, a resident of Navanagar here, used to misguide people at ATMs to achieve his goal.
Explaining his modus operandi, police said Kulkarni used to select places where two or more ATM machines are located and wait for gullible people. Once the customer entered the PIN number after swiping the card, he asked him to try on another machine saying the one he/she was using is under repair. Then he checked the balance and then cleared it.
According to the information available with the police so far, Kulkarni has cheated at least six people in Hubli-Dharwad including Shivappa Pattanashetty, a senior citizen, and one in Upparpet, Bangalore. Pattanashetty had lodged a police complaint leading to his arrest.
Kulkarni was arrested on Saturday morning after a security guard at an ATM in Dammanagi Plaza here alerted police after he grew suspicious about Kulkarni's movements.
Dear friends, As you all know I, Deepali Gotadke, run e-commerce site Clickhubli.com. I have come across a cyber crime.
I run an online flowers and gifts delivery site www.clickhubli.com since 2001.
I have similar sites like clickhubli.com which deliver flowers and gifts all over India.
I take orders through payment gateway provided by a company called CCNOW based in USA.
We received 3 ordersin the month of August and September 2008.
All the 3 orders were placed by Mr.Reji Abraham ,6439,Market Street, Upper Darby, PA 19082,ph no : 0091 9815851068. <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--> <!--[endif]-->
All the 3 orders were placed for delivery to Ms.Komal Goel, HOUSE NO.28/1,U BLOCK,DLF PHASE, GURGAON, HARYANA 122001 Phone: 971 845-9849 <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--> <!--[endif]-->
We delivered following mobile handsets to her
The details are: 1. SONY P1i(Blackberry) $527.00 USD on 31/08/08 2. SONY K790i $303.00 USD on 11/09/08 3. Nokia N82 mobile handset $512.00 USD on 22/09/08
These mobile handsets were booked byMr.Reji Abraham
The payment was done but later on it was charged back to us on December 18th by CCNOW. The sender claimed that he has not done this transaction by his credit card.
After the chargeback also, the same fake orders were coming on the site.
This time we received 2 orders which were for mobile handsets. One of the order had come from the same e-mail ID : mannats_bf@yahoo.co.in
So I got a doubt that somebody is placing order from India and cheating us.
I traced the i/p address of the computers from where I received the orders and I got confirmation that the orders have come from India only.
Then I gave FIR against the unknown person to Hubli police station.
Hubli-Dharwad police commissioner Mr.Shivakumar did a great help by taking immediate action and sent police to chandigarh. I am grateful to the police.
I had given a empty parcel to the police and told them that they have to go as a courier person.
Meanwhile I called the recipient Sahil Sharma and told that he will receive the mobile today.
I requested him to receive it himself but he refused to do so and sent his friend.
Still police could manage to catch the criminal Sahil Sharma from chandigarh who was a student from hotel management college.
The further story is as follows:
The following news appeared in yahoo news.
Chandigarh, Jan 9 (IANS) A 20-year-old student has been arrested on the charge of using credit cards of other people for online shopping, a police officer said here Friday.
The student of hotel management, Sahil Sharma, is the son of a senior Haryana government official. His mother is a leading architect there.
Sahil was arrested late Thursday evening after a joint operation was launched by the cyber crime investigation cell of Chandigarh and Karnataka police.
'Sahil Sharma used credit card numbers of people staying in the US and the UK to make online purchases. He usually bought expensive mobile handsets,' Deputy Superintendent of Police (crime) K.I.P. Singh told IANS.
He said Sahil ordered three mobile phones worth Rs.150,000 from a Karnataka-based online portal of gift deliveries clickhubli.com.
Sahil, who was in a Gurgaon hotel in August 2008, allegedly wrote in an e-mail that he was Reji Abraham, a resident of the US. The mobiles were delivered to him at the hotel.
But when the amount was deducted from the account of real Abraham, he filed a complaint with the company saying that he never placed any order.
Enthused by his success, Sahil again placed orders with the same portal in the name of Shiela Lane from Britain and Kerrie Sheldon from the US, the police alleged.
He gave the addresses of his college and home for the delivery of ordered mobile phones.
'We sent a decoy courier boy to make a delivery at Sahil's residence in Sector 23 and caught him red-handed while accepting the parcel,' Singh said.
The owner of the portal had approached the Karnataka police Dec 31, which laid the trap jointly with Chandigarh police and nabbed him.
Sahil worked for an international call centre in 2006 where he used to sell mobile phones to international customers and note their credit card numbers for the company's record.
From there he managed to get these credit card numbers for fraudulent use,
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Computer Crime, E-Crime, Hi-Tech Crime or Electronic Crime is a crime in which a computer plays an essential part. This type of crime is the illegal exploitation of computer technologies, usually involving the Internet, to support crimes such as fraud, identity theft, sharing of information, and embezzlement. Exactly what is illegal varies greatly from territory to territory. Consequently, the growth of international data communications and in particular the Internet has made these crimes both more common and more difficult to police. Luckily there are people fighting computer crime and it is taken very seriously by government agencies.
Examples of cyber crime are :
1. Fraud achieved by the manipulation of computer records
2.Spamming wherever outlawed completely or where regulations controlling it are violated
3.Deliberate circumvention of computer security systems.
4.Unauthorised access to or modification of Programmes or Data
5.Intellectual property theft, including software piracy.
6.Industrial espionage by means of access to or theft of computer materials.
7.Identity theft where this is accomplished by use of fraudulent computer transactions.
8.Writing or spreading computer viruses or worms.
9.Salami slicing is the practice of stealing money repeatedly in extremely small quantities
10. Denial-of-service attack, where company websites are flooded with service requests and their website is overloaded and either slowed or crashes completely
11.Making and digitally distributing child pornography
