Bihar’s Cybercrime Crisis Grows Through Five Converging Trends

Cybercrime means using phones or the internet to trick or harm people.

Bihar is seeing many more cybercrime complaints than before.

Criminals target both cities and villages with scams involving bank accounts, jobs, investments, loans and digital payments.

Some districts have become important places for these criminal networks.

Many new internet users do not yet know how to stay safe online.

Young people are also being recruited into fraud groups.

Personal revenge and disagreements are another reported reason for some cyber offences, although that category includes many types of crimes.

Bihar Police is trying to respond by freezing stolen money, blocking phone numbers and opening cybercrime police stations.