Yogesh K Porwar
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yber fraudsters posing as transport officials sending messages to vehicle owners under the Vahan Parivahan ID with a APK file to steal the data .
The traffic police confirm about the incident and urged people not to entertain such messages.The traffic police neither nor the transport department officials never call individuals to inform them of cases against their vehicles or demand payment of fines online.
Several people getting messages and many people have followed the instructions now fear that their confidential data is accessed unauthorisedly .
The officials are also probing on how the cyber frauds have accessed to the contact number of the vehicle owners and sharing the correct vehicle details .
The message inform the receivers that there is a ticket generated about the traffic violation which has been recorded in the CCTV camera.
The details of the violations can be accessed by clicking the link,which according to the officials contained APK malware which will access confidential data of the phone.
It may be recalled that the in November last year,similar attempt has been made to cheat the vehicle owners.
The accused posing as Bengaluru Traffic Police (BTP) officials and falsely claiming that a person’s vehicle has multiple traffic violation cases send malicious links or QR codes, urging victims to pay the long-pending fines immediately to avoid alleged legal trouble.
Earlier in February last year,the fraudsters posing as traffic policemen tried to cheat people in the name of collecting fines for violation of traffic norms.
The scam came to light where motorists have turned up at the Traffic Management Centre (TMC) complaining that they were receiving notices to pay fines from Bengaluru Traffic Police (BTP) even after paying them online.
