Miscreants open DIG STF JN Pankaj’s pretend Facebook account

Someone has opened a pretend account in my identify on Facebook and sending doubtful messages to Facebook associates, stated DIG STF JN Pankaj.

Bhubaneswar: Some miscreants have reportedly opened a pretend Facebook account of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Special Task Force (STF) Jay Narayan Pankaj.

Pankaj took to his Twitter deal with to tell about his pretend Facebook account and urged folks to not reply. “Someone has opened a fake account in my name on Facebook and sending dubious messages to Facebook friends. Kindly don’t respond,” he wrote on his Twitter web page.

Someone has opened a pretend account in my identify on Facebook and sending doubtful messages to Facebook associates.
Kindly don’t reply.

— JN Pankaj (@jnpankaj) December 10, 2022

This shouldn’t be the primary time that the scamsters have opened a pretend account of an IPS officer. Time and once more that they had created pretend social media handles of a number of IAS and IPS officers and demanded cash from some folks.

A cyber-fraudster had created a pretend WhatsApp account within the identify of Directorate General (DGP) Fire Services Santosh Kumar Upadhyay and requested for cash from some officers earlier on September 11 this yr.

Likewise, a pretend WhatsApp account was created within the identify of Cuttack Collector Bhabani Shankar Chayani had sought favours from his followers.