“Currently Mumbai’s population is more than two crore and cases related to cyber crime are increasing day by day. Therefore, 220 police personnel, including constables, are being trained to deal with such cases,” the official stated.

The Mumbai Police’s cyber crime wing has registered 3,668 circumstances until September this yr, of which 1,073 account for on-line or bank card fraud, an official stated.

Of the three,668 circumstances, 214 had been cracked with the arrest of 334 folks, he stated.

“Currently Mumbai’s population is more than two crore and cases related to cyber crime are increasing day by day. Therefore, 220 police personnel, including constables, are being trained to deal with such cases,” the official stated.

Out of the full circumstances, 299 had been associated to obscene emails or MMS posts during which 94 folks had been arrested, he stated.

“For fake social media profiles or morphing e-mails, 108 cases were reported and 25 people were arrested. As many as 1,073 cases pertaining to credit card or online fraud were registered, in which 16 people were arrested. Also, 1,141 cases of cheating were registered in which 41 people were arrested,” he stated.

Seven circumstances of tampering with laptop supply code, 31 circumstances of phishing or spoofing mail, 22 circumstances of pornography, 46 circumstances of hacking, 66 of present fraud and 154 of buy fraud.

There had been additionally 85 circumstances of job fraud 85, 16 insurance coverage fraud, 4 admission fraud, 47 pretend web site, 27 matrimonial fraud, 16 crypto foreign money fraud, 96 mortgage fraud 96, 143 knowledge theft, 65 sextortion, amongst others, registered by the cyber cell.