LUDHIANA: Unlawful acts on the Internet ' cyber crime ' is on the rise with increasing technology. Some time ago, a collegiate had visited the cops to register her complaint against an unknown online criminal, who had created a social networking profile on her name. The girl had reported to the police that her photographs were also uploaded to the fake profile.
The previous month, cops had received eight such complaints. Cyber crime cell in charge Bhupinder Singh said, ''It is mostly women who are targeted. Profiles of girls are created by fraudsters, for selfish motives.''
In another happening, an employee of the entertainment industry of Mumbai who is a Ludhiana resident, complained to cops that someone had made a fake social profile on his name with false credentials and through this profile, the criminal had duped a girl of Rs 20,000 by assuring her a job in some multi-national firm.