NEW DELHI: More than 37,721 cyber fraud cases involving Rs 497 crore have been reported by the RBI and CBI in the last four years, telecom and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad informed Lok Sabha.
Several cyber attack techniques are used in engineering these crimes and are normally reported as ATM/ debit card, credit card, internet banking frauds, Prasad said in a written reply to the House. “As per information provided by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), 10,048, 8,765, 9,500 and 9,362 cyber fraud cases and losses of Rs 38 crore, Rs 67 crore, Rs 78 crore and Rs 60 crore have been reported to the RBI during 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14 and April, December 2014, respectively,” he added.
In a separate reply, the minister said: “CBI has also registered 46 cases (14 Preliminary Enquiries) and 32 RCs (Regular Cases) relating to cyber crime in various parts of the country during the last few years that is 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 (till date).”
In these cases 34 persons have been arrested, he said. “An amount of Rs 90 crore, Rs 158 crore and Rs 6 crore was involved in these cases registered during the year 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively,” Prasad added.
