Chandigarh, June 21 -- In a significant crackdown on cybercrime, Punjab police's state cyber
Crime police station has arrested an alleged fraudster involved in multiple cases of OLX rental fraud.
The accused, identified as Paramjit Singh of Kharar in Mohali, was arrested by Inspector Daljeet Singh following an analysis of cyber fraud data reported on the Pratibimb portal of the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
Preliminary investigations have revealed that the accused had cheated at least 23 victims belonging to Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, duping them of approximately Rs 5 lakh through fake rental advertisements on OLX.
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