AIZAWL — The northeastern state of Mizoram has witnessed a significant rise in cyber-crime or financial fraud, with approximately duping over INR 8 crore in the first nine months of this year, police officials said. Mizoram police cyber crime officials said that between January and September over INR 8 crore of a large number of people were duped. Nearly 80 per cent of the cyber-crime cases are financial fraud, primarily involving fake investment or depository schemes and impersonation fraud, an official told the media. Cyber-criminals cheated a total of INR 8,00,31,849.35 from victims across the state, with July recording the highest financial fraud of INR 2.57 crore, followed by INR 1.59 crore in March this year and the monetary loss of other months this year ranging between INR 24 lakh to INR one crore. Only around 10 per cent of the INR 8 crore of deceived money was reclaimed, the official said, adding that the frauds sometimes identified themselves as military or bank personnel to earn victims’ confidence before convincing them to transfer money. Also read: Arunachal musician booked for publicly killing chicken, drinking its blood Mizoram Police officials said that most of the cybercriminals operate from different parts of...