Man harassed by ‘woman cop’ asked to share minor daughter’s number, received morphed pics of her

The "woman cop" told the man that his daughter's phone could undergo a cyber attack and if she wants to be safe and wants any guidance, she could make a call on a given number.

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Later, the "woman cop" told the man that his daughter's phone could undergo a cyber attack and if she wants to be safe and wants any guidance, she could make a call on a given number. She shared a mobile number with the complainant.

The Kanjurmarg police on Thursday registered a case against two unknown mobile phone users, one of whom called up a 50-year-old man posing as a cop in order to fraudulently obtain his 16-year-old daughter’s phone number. After the man refused to give his daughter’s number the accused sent him nude photoshopped pictures of her. Later, it was found that the call came from a boy in her college. Police are further probing the matter.

The complainant man has registered a police complaint as on May 2 he randomly received a message ‘Hi’ from an unknown mobile number. The message sender identified herself as one Mokshada Patil from Cyber Crime office, Kanjurmarg. She also offered to marry the man, the police complaint says.

Later, the “woman cop” told the man that his daughter’s phone could undergo a cyber attack and if she wants to be safe and wants any guidance, she could make a call on a given number. She shared a mobile number with the complainant.

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But, as his daughter didn’t make any call on the given number and the complainant also didn’t share his daughter’s number, he some days later received morphed nudes of his daughter. The sender allegedly obtained the minor girl’s photo from her social media profiles and morphed them or edited them, the police complaint added.

When the complainant showed the morphed pics to his daughter and the second mobile number (shared with him for ‘any cyber crime related help’ to his daughter), the minor identified the number on Truecaller to be of one of the boys from her college class.

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The man along with his daughter then approached the police and filed a complaint against the two mobile phone users.Police have registered an FIR against the users of the two mobile numbers under sections 354, 500, 509 of the IPC and sections 66 and 67B of the Information Technology Act and section 12 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.

“We have registered a case and no arrest has been made yet. We are investigating the matter and since the matter is sensitive and involves minors we can not divulge case details,” said a sub-inspector officer part of the probe.

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