Woman discloses scam, alerts netizens
By bringing attention to a fresh cybercrime strategy, a marketing expert from Chennai has assisted others in avoiding the scam. Lavanya Mohan, the woman, talked about her experience on X, (formerly Twitter). She said how she got a call saying that someone was using her Aadhaar card to carry drugs over international borders.
The woman said she had recently read in the news about how two residents of Gurugram were conned out of almost Rs 2 crores by cybercriminals who tricked FedEx executives and cybercrime branch experts into calling people and pretending their Aadhar cards were being used to smuggle drugs into Thailand.
A woman revealed the scam of “Aadhar Card Misused For Drug Smuggling”
Mohan described her conversation with the fraudsters in a series of X threads posted on her social media account, @lavsmohan. The caller, who was impersonating a customer service agent from a delivery company (FedEx, in Mohan’s case), had concocted a story about a package that was supposed to be shipped with drugs from Thailand using her Aadhar ID.
Even more phony data were provided by the fraudster, such as shipment information, a forged FIR number, and even a phony employee ID, to increase the impression of urgency and validity. The caller then warned her about “rising scams” and offered to put her in touch with a customs official to settle the matter.
In her post, Mohan went into This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents