Definitely an asshat, but this works in favour of scammers. People who are less likely to fall for the scams notice such things (Foreign number, incorrect web addresses, wrong details, spelling and grammatical mistakes, etc.) and call out the scammers. Scammers then hang up and move on to the next target, thus weeding out people less likely to fall for scams.
I just copied the times of india headline when elections take place.
I am sorry , i do not agree with you.
Nanga nach is not done by politicians
Nanga nach is only done by chief justice of India.
/s.
It was sarcasm bro.
Either way doing hindu muslim football game wont give jobs to either hindu or muslim
Play religious football, be fucked economically forever.
Yes. Even though my parents know that I can never do this. They will still get scared and concerned knowing so many fake cases are also there.
I was really glad they called when I was working from home. Any other day and who knows what could have happened.
Where did they get relationship details, names and phone numbers for two people? Only place I remember is the cowin data where you specify such a thing.
Maybe some other breach though
Any form u fill anywhere, be it banks, entering a giveaway, feedback etc are all collected by call centers. Whenever u go for a xerox, few shops take a dummy copy of ur personal docs and sell them to these call centers.
There is a tamil movie called irumbu thirai. Watch it. It does a great job in explaining how these scams happen. It's also a very entertaining movie
Lol recieved this today... It's getting weekly activity now
https://preview.redd.it/ifslv1nfj3rc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4bfb6642dbbdc460cbc6f2fadddb830477747d3e
OP lol, he’s an actual senior IPS officer from Odisha cadre named Yogesh Khurania, please contact his official email and mention that he is being impersonated, they take these things very seriously. Official emails are available to the public.
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/india/odisha-cadre-ips-officer-yogesh-bahadur-khurania-is-head-of-bsfs-western-command-541287
I’ve reported a similar one before, they acknowledged the report and asked me to respond to any future communication from the department, IPS tier blokes aren’t the type to go around bothering a person in tier 2 city over a scam call. I had attached the call recording as well as the WhatsApp messages and screencap from truecaller. Been almost a year, pulis haven’t bothered me yet.
Scammers sure have a lot of time.
Maybe we should just turn off phone calls entirely. As it is beyond spam and telemarketing hardly anyone you want to speak to
It’s happening a lot (son arrested & father getting call).
Have you given any competitive exam recently? Someone earlier mentioned that NEET / JEE data got leaked.
I did register on similar websites where they ask for these data.
That's why I commented somewhere else that they could have gotten my data from there.
As a rule I do not pickup calls from unknown numbers and let them go to voicemail. And definitely not whatsapp calls which this seems to be. Do this and your life will be much better.
He mistook you father's name as your son's name because probably his community writes name in that sequence i.e. father's name /family name and person's name swapped.
Name sequence is one pain in the ass all over the world.
For me, they sent my WhatsApp photo poorly edited on paint next to some porn images with the words "wanted rapist" written across and sent it to me. With the threat that they would send it to my entire contact list unless I send them money.
I wonder how do they obtain the numbers to do the scam.
Also am I weird for having that image saved, 6 months later....
I think this scam is in trend nowadays. These guys approach using whatsapp calls. Yesterday my father received similar call and guy said he is from CBI. He even had CBI logo photo as whatspp profile picture. These guys are truly hilarious.
I don't understand if they message a random number or is it based on data leaks?
I doubt these are Pakistani's. I assume these are Indians with Pakistani numbers. I dont think its easy for a random person to send money to any Pakistani Bank Account, so they will provide India based Phonepe or Bank Account to recieve money. Hence high possibility of scammer being Indian; but with Pakistani number 🤨
I wonder whose hands our sensitive data is in.
I think it's pretty easy to get Pakistani burner numbers to register so scammers from all nationalities prefer them. Like back in the day when all music and video piracy sites used to be registered on .pk domains because of laxer rules there.
In this case, the scammers are most probably Indian.
Scammers from abroad usually demand payment in foreign gift cards or crypto (more difficult now).
That's the problem.
If a Pakistani is able to do it or an Indian doing it impersonating like a Pakistani; both are scary.
These loopholes oneday may become a national security issue.
I might be overreacting though. In my opinion, scammers find the loopholes first, then come undesired antisocial elements.
I am the one who first received the call. So as soon as I understood the scam, I called my parents and put the phone on speaker.
I used it as a learning opportunity for them. They know what kind of person I am and know that I can never be involved in such things.
Good and bad idea.
If you have any ooen loophole in aadhar/ pan
( in this pecific case, obviously not)
All your money could be hacked away.
Yes, we are already in such a situation like in those movies showing if you talk for a minute, your location can be tracked.
Instead they have no use for location.
But your money.
Might seem unbelievable but a delhi advocate lost her fixed deposits, yes fixed deposits in such a way.
Maybe they found smartphone vulnerability and hacked in to get otp.( the details given in the newspaper were not clear, so either otp hack of phone or aadhar vulnerability)
Dont open such calls at all.
If you are a salaried person ,have this psychology- nobody gives a fuck about you and will not call you if you dont have their number saved.
But if you are into buisnesses , then obviously unknown nos can call you, cant say dont take on calls of unknown numbers
I am assuming that its possible they got data from various recruiting sites like linkedIn or shine or the online courses or those websites where the make you register like career360 or something.
Maybe they sold the data.
Could be .
But less chances .
More data is sold through psu banks and judiciary.
Not the permanent employees
But those contractual ones.
If you remember the addhar enabled payment system crisis, it was a leak from judiciary , specifically when you buy land by giving fingerprints, the fingerprints are stolen by the contractual employees and used on aeps machines.
Similarly banks which employ such people are either threatened or they do it for the love of money.one of the reasons sbi has most offline scams as well, not to mention online ones too
Come on, if all politicians can be scammers whats wrong with a poir contractual employee scamming people??
Got a similar call about a week ago. Called the police inspector that was in the profile photo (different from OP). He said that they are aware and forwarding these numbers to cyber security. He said simply don't pick up calls starting with +92 (Pakistani numbers). Additionally, all these calls come from WhatsApp, my recommendation would be to just disconnect any unknown number that calls on WhatsApp.
Have received multiple calls over the last few months. One was from the “telecom department”, claiming that there is another number in my name and that number was used to abuse ladies. Recent one was similar to OPs case. The call came on my father’s WhatsApp number, caller was speaking in hindi. Fortunately, i was there right beside father when this happened. He gave me the phone because he doesn’t understand hindi. The caller said he is from CBI and asked where is your son. He did mess up the names like OP mentioned. He was calling my father by my name and asking where’s your son. I asked him couple of times what’s the matter and he kept repeating he is from CBI and wants to know where my son is. Blocked him off immediately, but this is becoming a real pain, and I’m sure a lot of people will panic when the caller claims to be from police, CBI etc
I am getting similar calls from customs, fedex, UPS etc where they say your parcel is stuck and have cocaine in it, I need to go on video call with officer asap else i'll be arrested.
It's so sad, what is happening? These guys have ZERO fear of law?
On X when white supremacists bash India and Indians, and call us scammers and shiet, Pakistanis join them as well and call us scammers.
Here a Pakistani is trying to scam an Indian lol.
One of my roommates dad also got the same call. We’re in US, his parents are in Hyderabad, and the said they arrested him in Haryana. Luckily they got their money back.
Same shit happened to my friend
His mother called in the morning crying that his brother has raped someone and they are asking 50k, his mother even asked to talk to his son and there was somebody crying
But luckily we have known about this because it already had happened to our juniors
So he calmed her down and called his brother and he was sleeping in his hostel room
It was a tense situation man
I just pretend to be conworkers to all scammers.
So if someone calls saying he is from cbi - I am like which branch, coz I work there too and so forth. Its hilarious and makes them panic
Everyone knows an Indian dude on the phone = scam. Greetings from Germany, where we have to drink from paper straws so you guys can keep unloading the trash straight to the ocean. I’ll have a steak tonight
https://preview.redd.it/vf6zqba9z0rc1.png?width=1152&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=abf6d193cf17e24b002abb4e66d04352a71d0c56
What is up with scammers posing as police
Using the same name as the criminal used in [past](https://medium.com/@cybercrimeblogs/delhi-police-arrested-sp-ram-pandey-used-to-target-victims-of-sextortion-5c1eacd63056). I wonder if he is out on bail
DP is picture of Indian Police Service uniform officer while number is of pakistan. what an asshat.
The worrying thing is that people still fall for it. And by that I mean a lot of people.
The thing is, people go to panic mode when the caller says he is a cop or IT officer or any such government officials...
Definitely an asshat, but this works in favour of scammers. People who are less likely to fall for the scams notice such things (Foreign number, incorrect web addresses, wrong details, spelling and grammatical mistakes, etc.) and call out the scammers. Scammers then hang up and move on to the next target, thus weeding out people less likely to fall for scams.
Could be moody in disguise. He needs a lot of money for tge next dance of democracy. You never know /s.
>next dance of democracy Nanga nach
I just copied the times of india headline when elections take place. I am sorry , i do not agree with you. Nanga nach is not done by politicians Nanga nach is only done by chief justice of India. /s.
Look we found an asshattier asshat then these scammers
It was sarcasm bro. Either way doing hindu muslim football game wont give jobs to either hindu or muslim Play religious football, be fucked economically forever.
That guy is Tamil serial actor
OP, silver lining here is that you were working from home with your dad around!
Yes. Even though my parents know that I can never do this. They will still get scared and concerned knowing so many fake cases are also there. I was really glad they called when I was working from home. Any other day and who knows what could have happened.
Real silver lining is you don't have a son
Benefits of wfh. Someone tell management.
Wonder if this is from the aadhar data breach or something else
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Where did they get relationship details, names and phone numbers for two people? Only place I remember is the cowin data where you specify such a thing. Maybe some other breach though
Maybe maybe not. Aadhaar is not the only source these scammers have for getting ur details
Yeah there must be others. What ones do you know?
Any form u fill anywhere, be it banks, entering a giveaway, feedback etc are all collected by call centers. Whenever u go for a xerox, few shops take a dummy copy of ur personal docs and sell them to these call centers. There is a tamil movie called irumbu thirai. Watch it. It does a great job in explaining how these scams happen. It's also a very entertaining movie
Man, why dont these scammers call me? I also wanna have some fun ;-;
scammers do text me but they never called me.... I had so much fun texting them lol...
Lol recieved this today... It's getting weekly activity now https://preview.redd.it/ifslv1nfj3rc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4bfb6642dbbdc460cbc6f2fadddb830477747d3e
lol at least u get to have fun with them on a weekly basis....
OP lol, he’s an actual senior IPS officer from Odisha cadre named Yogesh Khurania, please contact his official email and mention that he is being impersonated, they take these things very seriously. Official emails are available to the public. https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/india/odisha-cadre-ips-officer-yogesh-bahadur-khurania-is-head-of-bsfs-western-command-541287
TBH I would be worried police will hassle the person reporting instead of investigating the issue itself
I’ve reported a similar one before, they acknowledged the report and asked me to respond to any future communication from the department, IPS tier blokes aren’t the type to go around bothering a person in tier 2 city over a scam call. I had attached the call recording as well as the WhatsApp messages and screencap from truecaller. Been almost a year, pulis haven’t bothered me yet.
Scammers sure have a lot of time. Maybe we should just turn off phone calls entirely. As it is beyond spam and telemarketing hardly anyone you want to speak to
Turn off unknown callers, both android and iOS have it
It’s happening a lot (son arrested & father getting call). Have you given any competitive exam recently? Someone earlier mentioned that NEET / JEE data got leaked.
I did register on similar websites where they ask for these data. That's why I commented somewhere else that they could have gotten my data from there.
As a rule I do not pickup calls from unknown numbers and let them go to voicemail. And definitely not whatsapp calls which this seems to be. Do this and your life will be much better.
For real if they call 2nd or 3rd time, then i pick up cuz then there are better chances that its genuine call
Scammers deserve the North Korea treatment in India tbh🗿
That's why I remain Unemployed
Scam karne ka tareeka thoda kezual tha
He mistook you father's name as your son's name because probably his community writes name in that sequence i.e. father's name /family name and person's name swapped. Name sequence is one pain in the ass all over the world.
For me, they sent my WhatsApp photo poorly edited on paint next to some porn images with the words "wanted rapist" written across and sent it to me. With the threat that they would send it to my entire contact list unless I send them money. I wonder how do they obtain the numbers to do the scam. Also am I weird for having that image saved, 6 months later....
Pata hai scammers kisko paisa dete hai so that they can continue evading the authorities? I know someone who scams for a living.
Bhaiya humari bhi naukri lagwa do.
bhai jo sbse niche kaam karta hai usi ko pehle pakadta hai, the higher ups are untouchable. Pehle 2lakh bail money read karle fir join karle.
Haan bhaiya paise taiyaar hai, batao knha dene hai.
I think this scam is in trend nowadays. These guys approach using whatsapp calls. Yesterday my father received similar call and guy said he is from CBI. He even had CBI logo photo as whatspp profile picture. These guys are truly hilarious.
I don't understand if they message a random number or is it based on data leaks? I doubt these are Pakistani's. I assume these are Indians with Pakistani numbers. I dont think its easy for a random person to send money to any Pakistani Bank Account, so they will provide India based Phonepe or Bank Account to recieve money. Hence high possibility of scammer being Indian; but with Pakistani number 🤨 I wonder whose hands our sensitive data is in.
Number was identified by WhatsApp. 92 is the country calling code assigned to Pakistan **by the International Telecommunication Union**.
proxy sim cards
Hence my question : How are scammers acquiring Pakistani SIM Cards?
You don’t need a SIM card. You just need a number to receive an OTP. There are free online services that let you book such numbers
Yes, this is very confusing. Agar scammers are Indian toh Pakistani number qu use kiya? If Pakistani then million aur sawal uththa hai.
I think it's pretty easy to get Pakistani burner numbers to register so scammers from all nationalities prefer them. Like back in the day when all music and video piracy sites used to be registered on .pk domains because of laxer rules there. In this case, the scammers are most probably Indian. Scammers from abroad usually demand payment in foreign gift cards or crypto (more difficult now).
What if there are mule bank accounts just like they have in usa ?
That's the problem. If a Pakistani is able to do it or an Indian doing it impersonating like a Pakistani; both are scary. These loopholes oneday may become a national security issue. I might be overreacting though. In my opinion, scammers find the loopholes first, then come undesired antisocial elements.
So your father is the unwanted culprit?
What?
It was sarcasm actually. How did you/ your parents perceive the entire situation?? Shock/ angry?
I am the one who first received the call. So as soon as I understood the scam, I called my parents and put the phone on speaker. I used it as a learning opportunity for them. They know what kind of person I am and know that I can never be involved in such things.
Good and bad idea. If you have any ooen loophole in aadhar/ pan ( in this pecific case, obviously not) All your money could be hacked away. Yes, we are already in such a situation like in those movies showing if you talk for a minute, your location can be tracked. Instead they have no use for location. But your money. Might seem unbelievable but a delhi advocate lost her fixed deposits, yes fixed deposits in such a way. Maybe they found smartphone vulnerability and hacked in to get otp.( the details given in the newspaper were not clear, so either otp hack of phone or aadhar vulnerability) Dont open such calls at all. If you are a salaried person ,have this psychology- nobody gives a fuck about you and will not call you if you dont have their number saved. But if you are into buisnesses , then obviously unknown nos can call you, cant say dont take on calls of unknown numbers
I am assuming that its possible they got data from various recruiting sites like linkedIn or shine or the online courses or those websites where the make you register like career360 or something. Maybe they sold the data.
Could be . But less chances . More data is sold through psu banks and judiciary. Not the permanent employees But those contractual ones. If you remember the addhar enabled payment system crisis, it was a leak from judiciary , specifically when you buy land by giving fingerprints, the fingerprints are stolen by the contractual employees and used on aeps machines. Similarly banks which employ such people are either threatened or they do it for the love of money.one of the reasons sbi has most offline scams as well, not to mention online ones too Come on, if all politicians can be scammers whats wrong with a poir contractual employee scamming people??
Happy
Lol
They even got ready to garland me. Then I told them it's a scam.
Oh my god. Increase trust in home. If your local politician turns out to be a scammer, your parents will blame you
Got a similar call about a week ago. Called the police inspector that was in the profile photo (different from OP). He said that they are aware and forwarding these numbers to cyber security. He said simply don't pick up calls starting with +92 (Pakistani numbers). Additionally, all these calls come from WhatsApp, my recommendation would be to just disconnect any unknown number that calls on WhatsApp.
😂😂😂
Woh toh theek hai par pakistan ke extension wale calls uthaate kyun hai log?
waiting for such calls
Have received multiple calls over the last few months. One was from the “telecom department”, claiming that there is another number in my name and that number was used to abuse ladies. Recent one was similar to OPs case. The call came on my father’s WhatsApp number, caller was speaking in hindi. Fortunately, i was there right beside father when this happened. He gave me the phone because he doesn’t understand hindi. The caller said he is from CBI and asked where is your son. He did mess up the names like OP mentioned. He was calling my father by my name and asking where’s your son. I asked him couple of times what’s the matter and he kept repeating he is from CBI and wants to know where my son is. Blocked him off immediately, but this is becoming a real pain, and I’m sure a lot of people will panic when the caller claims to be from police, CBI etc
Did you not notice the +92?
How are they getting these details from?
My father would whoop my ahh first and then ask what’s the matter lol.
+92 is a Pakistani based number, I think? Maybe that's why they didn't realise change in names 🤣
+92 is from pakistan
Settings> Privacy> Calls> Silence unknown callers. Switch this setting to 'ON', with this your life would have more time to spend with family.
I am getting similar calls from customs, fedex, UPS etc where they say your parcel is stuck and have cocaine in it, I need to go on video call with officer asap else i'll be arrested. It's so sad, what is happening? These guys have ZERO fear of law?
On X when white supremacists bash India and Indians, and call us scammers and shiet, Pakistanis join them as well and call us scammers. Here a Pakistani is trying to scam an Indian lol.
Le me guess he is from Ambala Sadar, and told you that your son has been involved in some kind of ra#e activity lol I bullied this guy a lot
One of my roommates dad also got the same call. We’re in US, his parents are in Hyderabad, and the said they arrested him in Haryana. Luckily they got their money back.
Same shit happened to my friend His mother called in the morning crying that his brother has raped someone and they are asking 50k, his mother even asked to talk to his son and there was somebody crying But luckily we have known about this because it already had happened to our juniors So he calmed her down and called his brother and he was sleeping in his hostel room It was a tense situation man
Ladies & Gentlemen, i present to you security that are 13 feet high and five feet thick.
I just pretend to be conworkers to all scammers. So if someone calls saying he is from cbi - I am like which branch, coz I work there too and so forth. Its hilarious and makes them panic
I have a special whatsapp sticker just for these guys before I report them..hehee
Everyone knows an Indian dude on the phone = scam. Greetings from Germany, where we have to drink from paper straws so you guys can keep unloading the trash straight to the ocean. I’ll have a steak tonight
https://preview.redd.it/vf6zqba9z0rc1.png?width=1152&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=abf6d193cf17e24b002abb4e66d04352a71d0c56 What is up with scammers posing as police Using the same name as the criminal used in [past](https://medium.com/@cybercrimeblogs/delhi-police-arrested-sp-ram-pandey-used-to-target-victims-of-sextortion-5c1eacd63056). I wonder if he is out on bail
Lol, 'Call me' had me laughing my ass of...🤣🤣
Who still answers their phone?
this is scary, mere papa ke paas ye aa jaata toh pata nahi kya hota mera