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Cyber thug cons Lucknow woman posing as cop
Lucknow woman blackmailed by cyber crook posing as policeman to pay ₹3,500 for alleged porn site on phone; FIR lodged under IT Act.
A cyber crook targeted a Lucknow woman by threatening to arrest her for opening a porn website on her mobile phone. The threat to book and defame her worked and she coughed up ₹3,500.
“The woman lodged a complaint on Friday after which Jankipuram police registered an FIR under section 66D IT Act,” said the Lucknow police.
Monica Singh, a resident of Jankipuram Extension, informed the police that on July 1 evening she got a call from a man posing as a policeman from Charbagh police station (which does not exist). He said that a porn website had been opened on her mobile number which is a crime.
Though she denied any such activity on her phone, “the policeman threatened to arrest and defame me by informing the neighbours about this. The caller asked me to deposit ₹3,500/- as a fine on Google Pay. Scared I first paid ₹1,000 and later ₹2,500 through Google Pay,” she said in the complaint.
“Later, another policeman said that my apology letter is being prepared for which I will have to pay ₹13,000 more for the signature of the DSP. During this time, I realised that I had been cheated,” she said in the complaint.
