Hyderabad, April 14: In another fraudulent attack online, a resident of Hyderabad lost Rs 1 lakh while filing his Income Tax Return (ITR) recently. The Rachakonda Cyber Crime Police noted that the 30-year-old professor in a city college fall victim to a phishing e-mail.

The e-mail contents had a link where the victim could file his online income-tax returns. The link led the city-college professor to an identical IT webpage where he filled his information and eventually lost his money.

S Harinath, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Cyber Crime), Rachakonda said that the police is expecting more such cases as a lot of people will file their ITRs in July, later this year. The police official further added that not only the victim but also his colleagues were sent a similar (phishing) e-mail too.

The Cyber Police told that a lot of such fraudulent cases happen; since the amount is too small nobody files a complaint. When the amount is relatively higher, people file complaints. However, since the amount was in lakhs this time, a complaint with the Cyber Police was filed.

Talking about the measures people have to take while indulging in a transaction online, the Police officer said that they should pay more attention to the websites addresses (URLs – Uniform Resource Locator), as they identical and very much similar to the original ones. Like for instance, Facebook.com may be displayed as Faceb00k.com or Facebook-.com.

As per the officials, there are over 500 verbal complaints registered with the police since the start of this year. And recently, as many as 45 FIRs were registered in context of one or the other type of cyber-crimes.

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