Three caught with 4,000 old mobile phones in Telangana

HYDERABAD: Be cautious when selling your old mobile phone to unknown individuals, as it could be used for cybercrime. When the police track the identity of the device, there is a chance that the seller of the phone might also be seen as a suspect in these crimes, the Telangana police said on Wednesday.

The Telangana Cyber Security Bureau identified that in the past month, three men—Mohammad Shamim (30), Abdul Salam (28), and Mohammad Iftikhar (32)— had purchased as many as 4,000 old mobile phones in Ramagundam and neighbouring districts at low rate with an intention to allegedly use the phones for committing cybercrime.