WhatsApp fraudsters posing as police officials call up people to demand money

From posing as distant relatives to long lost friends, WhatsApp fraudsters now seem to have graduated on to bigger things as they have of late started calling up people posing as police officials. Threatening people, especially the elderly living alone, of implicating their children in a case, these fraudsters try to lure people into paying them money and not take any action.

Parshotam Singh, a local resident, said, “The fraudster who called me, identified himself as an SHO. He threatened that my son was travelling with some gangster who was gunned down by the police.