Mumbai: Marathi actor and producer Adinath Kothare filed First Information Report (FIR) at Samata Nagar police station’s, Kandivali (east) cyber department on Saturday against his fake Facebook account.
Mr Kothare said, “A certain impersonator has created a Facebook account using my name and has even uploaded my family photograph on the fake account. He has been chatting with my friends, inviting them for meeting at odd places, sending inappropriate messages and is also trying to retrieve vital information about my whereabouts and other related inputs from my friends.”
Balsingh Rajput, superintendent of police (cyber) said, “There are two kinds of fake follower-profiles – one is organic and the second is inorganic. The organic fake profiles are just created to increase followers, but they have zero engagement and are stagnant. The other one are deliberately made to spread hate messages, or target women and indulge in abusing and trolling. There are some profiles, which are created by taking people’s id cards, which is also illegal. There is another kind of bots which serve the purpose of answering automated messages.”
There have been many cases of the dreaded cyber crimes all over the world. In our country too, the cyber criminals do not spare Bollywood actors. Be it cyber fraud, cyber phishing or an imposter pretending to be someone else has become a common phenomenon.
The cyber cell cops have initiated the probe in this case after registering the complaint. The FIR has been lodged against unknown imposter under sections 419, 500 (cheating and defamation) of IPC and 66C (identity theft) and 66D (cheating by personation by using computer resource) of the Information Technology Act.
