Online safety: Police issue fraud alert on file downloads from social media sites
Police on Saturday issued a public advisory on its X handle asking mobile users not to download files received from unknown numbers “on WhatsApp or other messaging platforms”.
The advisory was issued within hours of Kolkata Police arresting a group of men who had allegedly been siphoning money from bank accounts by fraudulently gaining remote access to mobile phones from Maheshtala on the city’s southern fringes.
