Do not use apps that claim to measure your BP: Tripura police

AGARTALA: Tripura police on Sunday issued an alert against using mobile apps that claim to measure blood pressure and oxygen level but steal users’ fingerprints.

“Do not download any mobile application which claims to measure your oxygen level and blood pressure. It may steal your fingerprints. You may lose your money and control over your mobile number”, a post on Tripura Police’s official Facebook handle read.

A state cybercrime unit officials said, “As of now, there are no specific complaints registered with us. But, there is a pan-Indian cyber coordination program running to curb the widening graph of cybercrimes and also to sensitise netizens of the anticipated problems. Whenever such an incident is reported somewhere in the country, alerts are issued to every state cyber cell unit to make people aware of the matter so that nobody falls prey to these evil traps.”

“Cybercriminals are clever enough to hatch a new plot every time. Every case is different than the previous one and, thus, people can’t relate to the cases that are reported earlier,” officials said.

Referring to a recent case, they said a youth born and brought up in Agartala had been conned. He was asked to pay some money for registration for a job in a telecom company. When he submitted the amount, he was asked repeatedly for money and he continued doing so, officials said, adding that in some time, the youth found out that he had deposited Rs 7 lakh so far in the accounts, but there was no sign of a job. The boy had lodged an FIR with police after he realised that he had been cheated.

“Recently, a girl complained that her photos are being circulated all over the internet without her permission. Her social media accounts are hacked and she has lost access to many of her private photographs. We are trying to trace the people behind this,” police added.