People in Vadodara are busy fighting the war against coronavirus and are trying to help each other in various ways. But there are a few others who instead of extending support and help, search for a chance to dupe a person. There have been rising cases of online frauds during the lockdown period. Cybercrime cell cops have received around 50 complaints of fraud calls with money siphoning of more than Rs. 10,000. Online transactions are growing due to less availability of cash and the fraudsters are coming up with different strategies to extract money in these difficult times. In a recent case in Vadodara, it has been noticed that few fraudsters are transacting money under the ‘https://www.kycfastag.in/’ website. The website is registered under the ‘Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)’ domain which is considered secure in comparison to ‘HTTP’. Another important thing to be observed is that usually, a tollfree number has an automatic respons

Author-Shlok Talati