'Nearly 700 people fall prey to cyber crimes in Delhi daily'

Every day at least 700 people are falling prey to cyber frauds in the national capital alone and the menace has exploded in the last 18 months with most of the crimes resulting from ignorance, greed and fear of the victims, DCP of Cyber Crime Cell said on Friday.

The cyber helpline number 1930 receives, on average, 55,000 to 60,000 calls per month or 1,700 per day, of which 700 to 800 are new complaints, every day, Deputy Commissioner of Police (IFSO, which is also called Cyber Crime unit) Hemant Tiwari said in an interaction with PTI editors at the agency’s headquarters here.

The numbers which are for Delhi alone suggest that the problem may be far more grim nationwide.