Andhra Pradesh Cybercrime Cases Rise as Recovery Rate Remains Low

Some bad people use computers and phones to trick others and steal their money.

In the state of Andhra Pradesh, this kind of crime is going up.

The police are worried because they can only recover a very small part of the stolen money.

In one year, the thieves stole more than ₹650 crore from the state.

Police got back less than three per cent of that amount.

Thousands of people called a police help line to report their problems.

But very few of those calls turned into official police cases.

Sometimes police freeze bank accounts they think are linked to the thieves.

That caused problems for some innocent people too.

Police say catching the thieves is hard because they often work together from other states.