Bollywood bigwigs Paresh Rawal and Mahesh Bhatt have lodged a complaint with the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell (CCIC) of the Mumbai crime branch
Bollywood bigwigs Paresh Rawal and Mahesh Bhatt have lodged a complaint with the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell (CCIC) of the Mumbai crime branch alleging that their fake profiles have been created on the social networking website Facebook. They said they apprehended that the profiles had been created for misuing them.
Joint commissioner of police (crime) Rakesh Maria said the complaints were lodged on Tuesday night. He said the profiles could have been posted to lure youngsters and wannabe actors and actresses into providing sensitive information and to then use the information against them.
Messages asking people to send in their photographs and personal details have been posted on the website. The website has had many visitors hoping to interact with Rawal and Bhatt, Maria said. Social networking websites, such as Facebook, can be used for casting couch, he said.
“This is for the first time that we have a complaint of a fake profile on Facebook,” he said. The previous complaints concerned Orkut, he said.
The cyber crime sleuths may face some obstacles in this case. Maria said. If the server on which the profile has been uploaded is situated in a foreign country then it becomes difficult to block such websites, he said.
The police on Thursday wrote to the agency concerned to block the website or erase the profiles.
Mahesh Bhatt said he came to know about the profile from his dentist. “He told me he had scrapped me on Facebook in past few days. I was shocked to hear this. I told him I am not registered on Facebook,” he told DNA.
“Later Paresh (Rawal) called me and said his fake profile said that he was looking for girls (newcomers) for films,” he said. He said the content was posted from the United States. Attempts were made to contact Paresh Rawal. But his secretary said he was in Mauritius.
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