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1700 cheating cases reported this year

New Delhi: Making the cheating more organized had been a trend of the criminals this year, the recent busting of a gang in SSC cheating case who were using Team Viewer was one such example. In the year 2018, the National Capital witnessed more than 1700 cases of the different types of cheating.

The police in their data claimed that they nabbed over 400 people involved in cheating cases. "Out of 1,723 cheating cases, city police solved 238 of them," added the data accessed by the Millennium Post. In 2017, the National Capital witnessed more than 4000 cheating cases in which 752 of them was solved and around 1,123 persons were nabbed for their involvement in the crime.

In one of cases this year, one gang was busted from North Delhi in which technology was used in cheating. The gang of four persons started operating in 2011. They would help candidates in cheating during examination which was manual but with the time the gang found loopholes in online examination and helped candidates cheat in the SSC online exam by using remote access tool software like Team Viewer but their luck ran out when Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh Police in a joint operation with Delhi Police arrested them from North Delhi's Timarpur.

Another arrest came from Jamtara in Jharkhand where a gang of fraudsters were nabbed by the cyber cell of Shahdara district. The accused used to cheat by taking bank details of the persons sitting in other states and then transferring the money in their e-wallet.

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