Trickster sets up cop’s Facebook profile to dupe people

Karwar: A trickster created a fake Facebook account of a Karwar Rural police sub-inspector to request money from the latter’s online friends. For this, the trickster used the Facebook Messenger to reach out to the PSI’s friends.
After coming to know of the con act on Thursday, PSI Revanasiddappa sent a message to his Facebook friends not to pay anyone who demands money in his name, and also informed his higher-ups about the same.
The trickster is from Jharkhand, police said, based on his location. The person had created the fake account using the profile picture of the PSI on the networking site. The conman later sent a message to his (PSI’s) Facebook friends to send him Rs 10,000, saying he needed the sum urgently. He also suggested them that they pay through Google Pay or Phone Pay. In the chat exchanges that he had with the PSI’s friends, the trickster said the money was to bail him (PSI) out from a personal problem. Believing this, many of the PSI’s friends credited the money in the trickster’s account.
After coming to know of this, a shocked Revanasiddappa brought the matter to the notice of his higher-ups and also used his Facebook account to alert his friends not to send money to the one who created his fake account.
Revanasiddappa said that he will lodge a complaint in this regard.