Varanasi: The police cyber cell and different safety businesses have launched a probe after some conman, whose location has been traced on Kashmir-Pakistan border, created pretend profiles of Varanasi divisional commissioner Deepak Agrawal and district Justice of the Peace Kaushal Raj Sharma on WhatsApp by utilizing their pictures and began sending messages demanding cash to individuals of their contact lists.
The district Justice of the Peace himself sounded an alert in regards to the fraudulent actions on Sunday night and appealed to individuals to not fall for such messages.
Talking to TOI on Monday, the DM mentioned, “Some anti-social aspect has created a pretend WhatsApp profile with the photograph of divisional commissioner on cell quantity 9797370756. One other pretend profile with the quantity 7286907727 has been created with my identify and photograph.”
This particular person is making calls and sending WhatsApp messages to officers and people on the numbers saved within the contact lists of each officers to demand cash and items, he mentioned interesting to the folks that these numbers don't belong to divisional commissioner and him, therefore such calls and messages shouldn't be entertained, and particulars, if any, be shared with police.
The cyber cell of police and different businesses have began tracing the caller, mentioned officers whereas interesting individuals to assist investigators in tracing the accused.