Belagavi: Hackers have allegedly cracked into Former Belagavi Deputy Commissioner M. G. Hiremath’s Facebook account and used it to send messages requesting money to people on his friend’s list.
According to the sources, screenshots showing hackers posing as the former Deputy Commissioner requesting Rs. 5,000 to be transferred his Facebook account has gone viral. They also asked the message receiver if he or she had PhonePe and could send the money.
Vikram Amte, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime and Traffic), said he had come to know about it after Hiremath informed him of the fraud.
