The matter was taken up with the merchant about these fraudulent transactions and accordingly the transactions were blocked for further use.

The fraudsters transferred the amount from CC AVENUE, Paytm (payment gateways) that was further settled to one US based company Melot Technologies Pvt Limited.

On the directions of SP Cyber Police Kashmir Tahir Ashraf, the Financial Fraud team of Cyber Police acted swiftly and after strenuous efforts, the Cyber Police traced out the UPI transaction details which were made by the fraudsters in 14 different transactions amounting to Rs 5,45,000. On following the directions on phone, all the money (Rs 5,45,000) in his bank account got debited in minutes and the matter was immediately reported to Cyber Police Station Kashmir Zone. He immediately received back call and was told that the refund amount could be transferred immediately via Google Pay and for this he would have to download a mobile application called AnyDesk on his cell phone. Official spokesman said that a person from Uri area of district Baramulla wanted to seek a refund for the cancellation of his air ticket and while searching for a customer care number, he found a number and dialled it. SRINAGAR, July 27: Cyber Police Kashmir has worked out AnyDesk fraud and saved lakhs of rupees of the complaint in a time bound manner.

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