Over 900 cases of fraud involving cards, net banking registered in Apr-Sep 2018
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has registered a total of 921 cases of fraud involving ATM/debit cards, credit cards and Internet banking, wherein the amount involved was Rs 1 lakh and above, during 2018-19 (up to September 30, 2018), Minister of State for Electronics and IT, S S Ahluwalia said in a written reply to Lok Sabha. Ahluwalia further noted that a total of 3, 14 and 6 financial fraud incidents affecting ATMs, cards, Point of sale (PoS) systems and Unified Payment Interface (UPI) have been reported during the year 2016, 2017 and 2018 (up to November) respectively, as per information reported to Indian Computer Emergency response Team (CERT-In). According to data maintained by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 12,317 cyber-crime cases were registered in 2016.
