Mumbai: To alert the public on fictitious online offers of lotteries and other cheap funds, the Reserve Bank has released a list of 34 nodal agencies across all states for registration of complaints against such cases. This is in order to sensitise the customers/general public in this regard and to protect them from becoming a victim of such offers, the RBI said. A list of nodal agencies in the different states for registering complaints in respect of fictitious offers/ lottery winnings/offers of remittance of cheap funds from abroad etc. has been compiled by the (RBI)..., the apex bank said in a circular. The nodal agencies are cyber crime cells or economic offence wings of local police of various states. The list of such agencies is available in the RBI website, it said.RBI said the compilation of the list is part of its ongoing initiative through public awareness campaigns against any such instances. It is to make people aware and not fall prey to "fictitious offers/lottery winnings/offers of remittance of cheap funds in foreign currency from abroad by certain foreign entities/ individuals, including Indian residents acting as the representatives of such entities/ individuals, it said. The RBI also asked all urban cooperative banks to display the list of nodal agencies at their branches.
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