The Hyderabad Police has arrested a person accused of making faux IDs and extorting cash on varied social media platforms, particularly focusing on high-ranking officers equivalent to IAS and IPS.
The person, who additionally cast the identification of Telangana ACB Director-Common CV Anand, was arrested by the Cyber Crime division of Hyderabad Police in Rajasthan’s Alwar.
Based on police, the 22-year-old accused used to extort cash from folks by creating Fb, Instagram, and WhatsApp accounts impersonating IAS, IPS officers, medical doctors and even politicians.
He then used to achieve out to relations and colleagues of the victims and extract cash of their names.
Police swung into motion based mostly on a grievance filed by Y Premkumar, Inspector of Police, Cyber Cell, highlighting the creation of fraudulent social media profiles within the title of Telangana ACB Director-Common.
The grievance additional revealed that the accused used to solicit cash and ship inappropriate messages within the title of the Telangana high cop, deceptive the general public in regards to the actions of a high-ranking authorities official.
After the preliminary investigation, police stated that the accused specialised in creating misleading social media accounts impersonating varied officers. “By fabricating faux profiles and exploiting their colleagues, he efficiently deceived people into offering monetary help,” police stated.
In the meantime, officers have confiscated 4 cell phones, every recognized with distinctive IMEI numbers, from the possession of the accused.
The 22-year-old man is in Hyderabad Police custody and is being interrogated for his alleged involvement in creating faux social media accounts of presidency officers and politicians to dupe cash from their relations and colleagues.
