Fraudsters clone UNO’s SIM, try to extort UP chairmen

Some fraudsters cloned the official mobile SIM of Brahmanbaria's Akhaura upazila nirbahi officer and demanded money from two union parishad chairmen using the number yesterday.

UNO Aonggyajai Marma filed a general diary with Akhaura Police Station in this connection.

He also made a Facebook post around 7:45pm.

In the post, he requested people not to do any kind of financial transactions if anyone contacts them using the number.

The UNO told The Daily Star that unidentified fraudsters cloned his official mobile SIM and had been demanding money from Dharkhar Union Parishad Chairman Shafiqul Islam Shafi and Akhaura South Union Parishad Chairman Jalal Uddin using the number.

However, none of them gave the fraudsters money, the UNO said, adding, "I don't know if they have asked for money from anyone else. Realising that the callers were fraudsters, the two chairmen instantly hung up. They later informed me of the incident."

Asadul Islam, officer-in-charge of Akhaura Police Station, said a GD was lodged in this connection. "Efforts are on to identify and arrest the fraudsters."