Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
Cyber frauds are getting angry and sending abuses and lewd messages after failed to cheating the people through BESCOM electric bill scam.
A Similar incident has been reported where a 56-year-old Reddy’s whatsapp account was hacked by the fraudster and started uploading nude pictures on his apartment whatsapp group through his account after he refused to share his bank account details.
Mr. Reddy is a resident of a apartment in Yelahanka and having a whatsapp group of the residents of the apartment .
Worried Reddy rushed to Northeast division cyber crime police and filed a complaint on Monday.
Based on the complaint the police are trying to track down the accused who according to the police is part of the gang which had duped many
people through electric bill scam .
In his complaint Mr.Reddy said that he received a message on his phone informing about the electric bill due to be paid stated that the power will be disconnected if the bill is not paid immediately.
The message also has a link and contact number, which Reddy ignored and paid the bill through different mode .
Few minutes later he received a call from a person informing that the bill has not been paid, for which Reddy replied that he has already made the payment and got the receipt.
The caller started insisting to share the details of the bill payment and bank account for which Reddy growing suspicion disconnected the call .
Enraged by this the caller hacked into his whatsapp account and started uploading nude pics on one of the whatsapp group of his residential apartment .
The incident came to light when some of his neighbors called Reddy to inform about the upload of pics .
Reddy tried to check his whatsapp account but it was blocked.He rushed to the station and filed a complaint.
It may be recalled that the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (BESCOM) had also complained to cyber crime police about its consumers getting fraudulent texts of discontinuation of electricity supply owing to the non-payment of bills.
BESCOM also clarified that the texts were fake and it does not insist on payments of bills through text messages.
