The Police warns citizens to be especially careful about telephone scams through a social networking application, where scammers falsely impersonate members of the Cyprus Police.
According to a complaint submitted today to the Nicosia Police Department, a 52-year-old resident of Nicosia responded to a video call he received from an unknown person through an electronic social networking application, with the latter falsely pretending to be communicating on behalf of the Immigration Department, citing the processing of a specific procedure. During the conversation, the astute showed a fake police ID and managed to convince the 52-year-old to give him personal information as well as bank account details, extorting a significant amount of money from him.






