UP Noida Cyber Fraud News – Cyber fraudsters cheated a former officer (retired) of Rs 22 lakh 79 thousand 20 by showing fear of circulating obscene photos on various social media platforms. Police gave this information. He told that the fraudsters made the victim transfer money to six accounts several times. When pressure was put on the victim to transfer more money, he suspected that he was being cheated and he complained about the matter to the cyber crime police station.
Inspector Rita Yadav, station in-charge, Cyber Crime Police Station, Sector 36, Noida, said that the victim is a retired officer and is currently working as a consultant in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
He told that some time ago a girl had made an obscene call on the complainant’s Facebook messenger. After some time, the victim received a call from a mobile number and the caller started blackmailing him by showing him and the girl’s morphed photos and videos and threatened that if he did not pay the amount, his video would be uploaded on YouTube. will be given.
After this, a person named Vikram Rathore, posing as Sub Inspector (SI) called the victim and asked for money in exchange for deleting the video and said that if he did not transfer the amount, he would not be punished if his video was circulated on social media. Will be able to stop.
He told that a few days after the incident, the victim again got a call from someone and the caller told that the police had gone to arrest the girl seen in the video, but the girl committed suicide by jumping from the third floor. If the girl’s family members give any statement about the victim in the media then he will be trapped and no one will be able to stop him from going to jail. After this the fraudsters demanded more money from the victim.
In total, the victim transferred an amount of about Rs 23 lakh to the fraudsters. The police station in-charge said that a case has been registered against an unknown fraudster and investigation has been started in this regard and there is a suspicion of fraud by the Mewat gang in the whole matter.