Hyderabad: The cyber crime police have arrested a 17-year-old youth for pretending as a Member of Parliament in an attempt to blackmail money. The youth created a social media platform for impersonation. The accused, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, sent a friend request to the complainant and started interacting with him. The minor boy impersonated as MP Joginpally Santosh Kumar on social media.
According to a report , the boy later started chatting with the man and asked for Rs 50,000 to pay for his friend’s daughter’s treatment in Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal. As the man detected that the account was fake, he contacted cyberabad police. The accused was later traced to UP and was arrested.
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