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Ahmedabad: Fake FB accounts of senior cops created

AHMEDABAD: Some unknown persons created fake Facebook accounts impersonating two senior police officers — IPS officer and deputy commissioner of police Ajay Chaudhary and Haresh Dudhat, who is superintendent of police and deputy director of the Gujarat Police Academy at Karai — and began asking their contacts for money.
Both officers immediately posted that these accounts were fake.
On Thursday, Choudhary realised that a fake Facebook account had been created in his name and messages were sent to his friends asking for money.
This is not the first time that such accounts pretending to be senior police officers have been created.
In April, Ahmedabad police had filed a case against an unidentified person for creating a fake Twitter account of DCP Zone 7 Premsukh Delu and posting objectionable posts from it.
Choudhary said, “I realised a fake account was created when my friends called me and said they were going to the bank to deposit the money in the bank.” Within 20 minutes of posting the message, Choudhary said he sent a message to the profile stating that the account was fake and the person behind it should not ask his friends for money.
Choudhary said that he was informed that such accounts are being operated from Haryana and the account was created from Kanpur.
“However, before we could trace the IP address, the account was locked.
Cybercrime investigators are tracing the person behind the messages.
Haresh Dudhat, SP and deputy director of the Police Training Academy at Karai, said he came to know about the fake account on Thursday morning when a friend called and informed him about it and the demands for money.
“I immediately put up a post on Facebook about the fake account and later approached cybercrime police.
They told me to report the issue to Facebook which I did.
I also sent messages to my friends so that they do not get cheated,” he said.
Dudhat said the person was asking his friends that if they have Google Pay accounts and then demanded money.

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