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Mumbai Police's cyber cell discovers new trend of cyber fraud
Updated On: 29 January, 2024 05:54 AM IST | Mumbai | Faizan Khan
Creating Telegram accounts in name of police stations to threaten and extract money
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Fraudsters use Telegram accounts to impersonate cops, extort money
The cyber cell of Mumbai Police has identified a new trend in cyber fraud. Cyber crooks are creating Telegram channels in the names of various police stations. They call people, impersonating a cop in uniform inside a police station, implicating them in false cases to cause panic and extract money.
A case was registered recently at Marine Drive police station by a 70-year-old businessman who was duped of Rs 3.5 lakh by cyber crooks using a similar trick. According to the FIR, the businessman received a call from an unknown number, and the caller claimed to be an officer from Lucknow customs. He informed the businessman that a parcel containing clothes, a laptop, 20 passports, and 150 gm of mephedrone had been received by Lucknow customs from Mayannar, sent by someone named John David. “The unknown caller instructed me to come to Gomti Nagar police station in Lucknow immediately, but I refused to go since I hadn`t ordered any such parcel. They then transferred my call to an officer claiming to be from the Gomti Nagar police station,” the complainant stated.
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