"impersonation"

A 19-year-old from Rajasthan was arrested by Hyderabad Cybercrime police for impersonating senior IAS and IPS officers on Facebook. He used fake accounts to befriend people and extort money under false pretenses. He’s involved in similar cases in Telangana.

A few persons had received messages through a whatsapp number and emails asking them to pay some money else face raids by different departments.

Over several years, they transferred her shares and misused her accounts

The cyber fraudsters also recruit Telugu-speaking people to target gullible people rural areas of the State

According to police, the impersonation was detected through biometric fingerprint scans of candidates at the examination centres

Logeswaran Mohandas pleaded guilty to six charges, including five for cheating by personation.

The arrested persons were Syed Nisar Ahmed (40) from Gulshan Iqbal Colony in Chandrayangutta and Thakur Achal Singh (29) from IDPL Colony

The vulnerability of Facebook profiles to fake ones was once again in the spotlight when the Telangana AG B Shivananda Prasad approached the Hyderabad Cybercrime Police

Cybercriminals trade malicious goods and services i.e., sell hacking tools or buy stolen data, information available deep web