Friday | May 23 2025 | 07:10:49 PM
New Delhi, May 8
The Haryana police have arrested a man who allegedly posed as an Army officer and duped people.
The police identified the accused as Mohammad Zahid, a resident of Tayra village in Rajasthan’s Deeg district.
The cyber team from Nuh police tracked a suspicious mobile number active on the Pratibimb portal that was previously linked to a Rs 9,000 fraud in Kerala’s Kannur.
The Pratibimb portal, launched last year, has details of SIM and IMEI numbers of suspected fraudsters, plotted in real time.
The police found three smartphones, six SIM cards, fake social media profiles, counterfeit Army photos, fraudulent QR code UPI IDs, and evidence of suspicious transactions via digital payment apps were found, the police said.
Interrogations revealed that Zahid allegedly used WhatsApp, posing as an Army officer with fake profiles, to deceive victims.
The accused had engaged in online fraud by using fake documents to purchase online items, creating fake social media profiles, fake bank accounts, sextortion, enticing people with lucrative ads for purchasing animals, and advertisements for making pencils, among other methods, police added.
