SHILLONG, NOV 5: Some of the female users of the social network Facebook” in East Khasi hills district are victim of the fraudsters who befriend these females through the facebook and duped them of their money. According to East Khasi hills SP M Kharkhrang, some of the female Facebook users in the East Khasi hills district have been victims of such cyber crime and have cautioned people, especially the female users of this social network, to be careful.
Kharkhrang said that criminals uses Facebook to befriend female and claims that they are from foreign countries. Once the female users become convinced of the “criminals claim” then the latter begins to take the victim up the garden path by saying that they would be visiting India soon or will be sending a parcel to them.
Subsequently, the criminals inform the female Facebook friend that they have been detained in an airport or that the parcel has been detained by customs for which they needed urgent money to pay the fine and accordingly request the victim to deposit a certain amount of money into an account of another person in India
Kharkhrang informed that only after depositing the money and the long wait, victim realizes that she has been duped by her “Facebook friend,” He has urged users of the social website to be cautious from such so called friends . He also asked the users to be cautious from people who call up in their mobile claiming to be SBI personnel and ask for ATM number and pin number to revamp the system.
Kharkhrang informed after they get the numbers, the caller(s) uses the ATM to buy items online till the balance in the particular account is exhausted. – By Our Reporter
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