Every day some new scam is coming in the notice of the state of Tamil Nadu. In the recent past, several police officers have faced situations where their social media profiles were being replicated by anonymous persons, who use it to demand monetary favours from the police officers’ contacts online. Recently, S Saravanan, the Deputy Commissioner of Police of Tirunelveli City, tweeted screenshots of a Facebook profile, informing his followers that it was a fake profile set up using his name. The officer, who goes by the name Arjun Saravanan on social media, advised his followers not to accept any requests for Facebook friendship or money from the particular profile.

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Later on, V Balakrishnan, a Tamil Nadu police officer in the rank of Deputy Inspector General (DIG), also posted a similar message on his original Facebook page. “I have not sent any friend request to anyone. So please ignore if there is any such request. In the meantime, I am checking my account whether it has been hacked,” he wrote. A few hours later, he posted that the imposter was apparently asking for monetary favors from users, posing as him.

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In modern times, the social media accounts of many such police officers have been on target by imposters, who make fake profiles in similar names to extract money from innocent users. Apart from V Balakrishnan and S Saravanan, at least three other officers have also reportedly warned their social media followers about the imposters trying to extort money by posing as policemen.

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