Cyber criminals use new trick for cheating: Many IPS officers duped by creating fake Twitter account of lady IPS officer
Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar : NpNews24 Online – IPS Mokshada Patil |Cyber criminals use various tricks to cheat celebrities, businessmen and traders. An incident has come to light wherein a fake Twitter account of a woman IPS officer was created and many IPS officers were cheated. The fake Twitter account is of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar Railway SP Mokshada Patil. (IPS Mokshada Patil)
A cyber criminal created a fake Twitter account of Mokshada Patil. He put up a post which said a girl’s liver transplant had been carried out and she was being treated in a hospital. A message was also posted that funds were desperately needed for the girl’s treatment. A photo of the girl and her mother along with a QR code was tweeted and made viral. Many IPS officers, believing that the account belonged to IPS officer Mokshada Patil, sent money to help her.
Meanwhile, Mokshada Patil came to know about the fake Twitter account. She immediately informed the Railway and rural police and cyber police and asked them to send reports to Twitter asking it to close the account. After many reports were received, the Twitter account was closed at 11 pm on Tuesday (March 27). The police are searching for the accused. Mokshada Patil said, “I don’t have any Twitter account and citizens should not fall prey to the post of cyber criminals.”
Mokshada Patil is known as lady Singham. She has proved her calibre by her excellent performance wherever she has been posted. She is remembered for her work during the coronavirus pandemic when she was posted as SP (rural) of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar. Her husband Astik Kumar Pandey is an IAS officer and is collector of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar district. At present, Mokshada Patil is SP (Railway) of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar.
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