Hacked Lady's Facebook, Approached Friends For Cash

Telangana Man Purportedly Hacked Lady's Facebook, Approached Companions For Cash

Telangana's Rachakonda Digital Wrongdoing Police captured a 24-year-old techie for purportedly signing into a lady's online life account in an unapproved way and attempting to remove cash from her companions on the appearance of taking care of medicinal tabs.

The accused has been identified as Bathula Venkateswarlu, a resident of Jillelaguda, Balapur Mandal.

According to the police, the woman, hailing from Sarooranagar filed a complaint and stated that since September 2019 she was unable to log into her Facebook account.

The woman came to know about this through one of her Facebook companions, whom she knew personally. In her complaint, she had alleged that somebody tried to extract money from her on-line associates on the pretext of her clinical medicine.

"During the investigation process, it was revealed that Bathula Venkateswarlu is a B.Tech graduate and he is presently working with a Madhapur based computer graphics firm. He confessed to having sent a link from a phishing website (spoofed site) and stole the user ID and password of the victim's Facebook account," Rachakonda police official said.

 

“Venkateswarlu weak her credentials to log in, which had been traced by accused through a phishing assault. He then modified the password alongside with the recovery electronic mail take care of and cell phone number. Later impersonating the victim, he began talking to her on-line associates and tried to extract money in minute sums on the pretext of paying a clinical bill,” the police appropriate added.