hyderabad cyber crooks cocked a snook at a software engineer and used his credit card to buy movie tickets worth rs 3450 onlinean intergraph consulting software engineer n gururaj kumar lodged a complaint with the crime investigation department cid that unidentified persons used his credit card and bought movie tickets illegallypolice said gururaj kumar was surprised to see a transaction of rs 3450 in his credit card statement which was not done by him on inquiry with the credit card company he came to know that some miscreants had bought movie tickets of a mumbai theatre at book my show wwwbookmyshowcom a couple of months agohe immediately took up the issue with the credit card company who expressed their helplessness and asked him to lodge a police complaint at this he formally lodged a police complaintcid cyber cell superintendent a s khan told toi that investigations have revealed that the culprit had done the transaction from hyderabad and bought the tickets online using gururajs hsbc credit cardwe do not know whether the culprit bought the tickets for himself or sold it in black we have identified the internet protocol address of the specific computer from where the transaction was done in similar cases in the past our investigations have shown that youngsters indulge in such activities khan saidpolice said malware like trojans are used by the cyber criminals to access data when individuals log on to the internet the trojans appear to perform a desirable function but actually perform a malicious function that allows unauthorised access to the victims machine from then on when ever the victim logs on to the internet the culprit can track his details he addedin a similar case a miscreant bought movie tickets from prasads multiplex worth rs 2000 hijacking someones broadband and credit card he used others broadband identification name and password to log on to the internet before buying the ticket but when we saw the internet protocol address from the internet service provider we discovered that the miscreants used cybercafes to execute such activities khan saidaccording to the police such cases have been registered under the information technology act 2000