IPS officer receives fake traffic challan message

Even an Indian Police Service serviceman has not been spared by fraudsters arsenic a Hyderabad constabulary authoritative received specified a connection connected Tuesday. The constabulary issued a caller advisory cautioning citizens against fake postulation challan scams successful the city. Officials said respective residents proceed to autumn prey to specified fraud contempt repeated warnings.

Hyderabad Police Commissioner V.C. Sajjanar said cybercriminals are sending phishing links done SMS, falsely claiming that postulation challans person been issued. These messages redirect users to fake websites that intimately lucifer authoritative authorities portals. Unsuspecting victims who participate their details connected these sites hazard having their slope accounts emptied wrong minutes.

Khairatabad Zone Deputy Commissioner of Police K. Shilpavalli revealed took to X and shared that she herself had precocious received 2 fake postulation challan messages connected her mobile phone. The fraudulent SMS messages, received wrong a span of 3 days, claimed that a challan had been issued and carried suspicious links posing arsenic authoritative portals.

Calling the messages fraudulent, the DCP said she did not click connected the links and alternatively reported them connected the Central government’s Sanchar Saathi portal.

Sajjanar cautioned citizens against clicking connected chartless links and reminded them that genuine authorities postulation challan websites extremity with “.gov.in”. The authoritative stressed that postulation challans should beryllium verified lone done the authoritative e-Challan website and that payments should ne'er beryllium made done links received via SMS. The serviceman urged radical to promptly study specified suspicious messages to forestall fiscal fraud.