In a reminder of the fake IPL that was started by a group of fraudsters in Gujarat, a group of con artists ran a fake police station 500 meters away from a real one in Bihar’s Banka, and it took the authorities 8 months to find that out.
These people ran the police station from a rented guest house and exported money from unsuspecting people who were coming there looking for help.
A group of fraudsters in #Bihar Banka district were running a fake police station for nearly 8 months. The cons were running the fake police station from a guest house that is nearly 500 metres away from the actual one
— Anand kumar (@kumaranand1999) August 19, 2022
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Their way of getting money was to take money in exchange for jobs, or the promise of solving a crime. To make everything seem real, they had proper, and fake, paperwork in place, too.
When caught by the police, they had the most ingenious excuse – that they thought they were actually working for the police department.
https://t.co/md5bfW9geY pic.twitter.com/NflinGf7lJ
— Maipelo M (@blacgemini) August 20, 2022
insane shit. you have to respect their dedication to the bit https://t.co/4D29MZN39W
— scarlett 🐙 (@scarlynch) August 20, 2022
Wonder where they got the idea from hmm… 🤔🤔 https://t.co/wmhkVd9wMs pic.twitter.com/F2R1n8FT6V
— thatsVatsshesaid (@VatsalMuchhala) August 20, 2022
Reminds me of the Chinese fake bank that opened and operated for like a whole year++ in Nanjing 😅 https://t.co/NqL2Om7fk2
— MISS RAY (@djmissRay) August 20, 2022
A gang from Bihar run a fake police station for 8 months 👌😭
— Ali (@whogoneboy17) August 18, 2022
Criminals in #Bihar ran a fake police station nearly for eight months, just 500 meters away from the local police chief house. 😂https://t.co/r23WOeXIGL
— Sushmit Patil Сушмит Патил सुश्मित पाटिल 🇮🇳 (@PatilSushmit) August 20, 2022
This story is mad – Indian gang ran fake police station out of hotel for eight months – @Samaanlateef https://t.co/oqtYlRGZ7N
— Nicola Smith (@niccijsmith) August 19, 2022
It was a group of 6 people that ran this scam and 5 of them have been arrested for now, while one remains on the run.
It happens only in India.