Haryana Police found 28,000 phone numbers being misused for cybercrimes

A senior Haryana Police officer said that about 28,000 mobile phone numbers being misused for committing cyber crimes have been identified through cybercrime helpline number 1930 and complaint portal cybercrime.gov.in.

The details of these numbers have been sent to the field units for getting them uploaded on the CyberSafe portal operated by the India Cyber Crime Coordination Centre under the Union home ministry in order to block them.

According to Additional Director General of Police (Crime) O P Singh, Gurugram (7,142), Faridabad (3,896), Panchkula (1,420), Sonipat (1,408), Rohtak (1,045), Hisar (1,228) and Ambala (1,101) were among the districts with the maximum number of mobile numbers used for committing cybercrimes.

Cumulatively, over 47,000 complaints of cybercrimes till September this year have been reported on helpline number 1930 and 29 cyber police stations, and 309 cyber desks in territorial police stations across the state. Police have also recovered and returned more than Rs 15 crore of defrauded money to the victims.

All district nodal officers for cybercrimes have been urged to upload mobile numbers being misused for committing cybercrimes on the CyberSafe portal. The field units have also been called upon “to carry out IMEI linkage analysis through the mobile handset being used to operate these numbers, find out other mobile numbers being used by the handset and upload these numbers on CyberSafe for their blocking by the Department of Telecommunications”.