‘Jamtara’ evokes cyber thugs, 7 circumstances in Lucknow
By IANS
LUCKNOW: Taking inspiration from the favored internet sequence ‘Jamtara’, cyber thugs in Lucknow are actually duping innocents by pretending to be defence personnel.
Last week, a retired financial institution supervisor Krishnanand Gupta, who had given an advert searching for tenants for his home, was duped of Rs 1.24 lakhs by a miscreant posing as a military captain.
In one other case, a businessman in Lucknow’s PGI locality was duped of Rs 15,000 by a person posing as military officer on Sunday.
The businessman had additionally given an advert for promoting his double mattress.
According to police stories, at the least seven circumstances have been reported from town within the final 20 days the place individuals had been duped by miscreants posing as military males or from the paramilitary forces.
The cyber cell can be getting one such criticism day by day.
SP, cyber cell, Triveni Singh mentioned that fraudsters scan commercials and nil in on their targets after which they acquire the individuals’s confidence by introducing themselves as military personnel.
“People usually trust a man who introduces himself as an army man or from paramilitary forces. To appear genuine, the miscreants give a fake badge number, battalion’s name, place of posting, photo in army uniform and identity card,” the SP mentioned.
He defined that scammers goal those that float commercials of second-hand bikes, vehicles, devices and issues of day by day utilization on social media and sale and buy web sites.
The SP additional added that whereas taking cost, they dupe by means of Quick Response (QR) codes which redirect victims to malicious websites that steal login and monetary data.
Singh mentioned that folks mustn’t share their confidential particulars with such callers and chorus from clicking suspicious hyperlinks.
LUCKNOW: Taking inspiration from the favored internet sequence ‘Jamtara’, cyber thugs in Lucknow are actually duping innocents by pretending to be defence personnel.
Last week, a retired financial institution supervisor Krishnanand Gupta, who had given an advert searching for tenants for his home, was duped of Rs 1.24 lakhs by a miscreant posing as a military captain.
In one other case, a businessman in Lucknow’s PGI locality was duped of Rs 15,000 by a person posing as military officer on Sunday.
The businessman had additionally given an advert for promoting his double mattress.
According to police stories, at the least seven circumstances have been reported from town within the final 20 days the place individuals had been duped by miscreants posing as military males or from the paramilitary forces.
The cyber cell can be getting one such criticism day by day.
SP, cyber cell, Triveni Singh mentioned that fraudsters scan commercials and nil in on their targets after which they acquire the individuals’s confidence by introducing themselves as military personnel.
“People usually trust a man who introduces himself as an army man or from paramilitary forces. To appear genuine, the miscreants give a fake badge number, battalion’s name, place of posting, photo in army uniform and identity card,” the SP mentioned.
He defined that scammers goal those that float commercials of second-hand bikes, vehicles, devices and issues of day by day utilization on social media and sale and buy web sites.
The SP additional added that whereas taking cost, they dupe by means of Quick Response (QR) codes which redirect victims to malicious websites that steal login and monetary data.
Singh mentioned that folks mustn’t share their confidential particulars with such callers and chorus from clicking suspicious hyperlinks.
