Online Is Front Line In Pandemic

Twenty-two-year-old Anjali Sakhre, a management graduate and a part-time employee with a call centre from Bhopal, was arrested recently for securing bank account details of her friends, acquaintances and various other people, and sharing the data with Ajay Raj, a cyber-criminal based in Bihar. The fraudster accessed those accounts to plunder the money. Anjali would make a commission of Rs 8,000-10,000 for each account. In most cases, she should open a bank account for her acquaintances using their ID documents under the alibi that she needed a bank account to receive a scholarship or for trading purpose and that she could not use her account because of tax liabilities. Anjali would use Ajay’s mobile number at the time of opening the account. This would give the fraudster easy online access to the accounts. With the advancement of technology, there is an increasing threat to...