How a cyber criminal clique created fake IDs of dead techies, stole money

If you have a friend or relative who freely reveals his or her personal information such as phone numbers, email IDs and details of family members, you’d better warn them.

Using social engineering skills (culling out basic information such as date of births, mother’s maiden name, email IDs, phone numbers and photos posted on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram ), it’s quite easy for cyber criminals to create a fake ID.

Cyber security experts, for long, have been warning about possible creation of fake IDs using the publicly available information online.

The Cyber Crime sleuths of Cyberabad Police have busted a racket where cyber criminals recreated fake IDs of four techies who were killed in accidents.