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Azamgarh News: If you also click on unknown links providing benefits of government schemes through WhatsApp or social media, then be careful. In Azamgarh, thugs stole lakhs of rupees from the farmer’s account through fake app link of PM Kisan Yojana.
Azamgarh: A huge fraud in the name of PM Kisan Yojana has been revealed in the district. In this case, the fraudsters have committed fraud worth lakhs of rupees through the fake app of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Yojana (PM Kisan). The fraudsters would send links and apps in the name of PM Kisan to the farmers’ mobile phones and ask them to install them and then withdraw money from their accounts. In this incident, fraud of Rs 7.70 lakh has been detected by the police, while fraud of Rs 17.5 lakh has also come to light.
The entire matter is of Bindra Bazaar of Azamgarh Gambhirpur police station area, where a message comes on WhatsApp from a person named Karan Gupta on 18 November 2025. In the message, an app link is given to download an application to avail the benefits of PM Kisan Yojana. As soon as the person clicked on that link and installed the app to avail the benefits of the government scheme, his mobile was immediately hacked and in no time the thugs stole Rs 770,000 from his bank account. The victim immediately informed the police about the matter, after which the investigation into the matter was immediately started by the cyber police station.
Instagram became a medium
The entire matter is coming to light in the police investigation, in which on November 30, 2025, two main accused Parvez Ansari and Mohammad Kalim were arrested by the police from Beebari police station area of Lucknow, while the main accused of the incident Mohammad Samad has not yet been caught by the police. During interrogation, the accused told that they connected with each other through Instagram, after which Mohammad Samad had connected both of them to do this work by luring them with 10% commission.
Jharkhand connection
The accused told that these people used to send bank account and ATM cards to Giridih in Jharkhand. The money defrauded from the victims would first come into their accounts, then after deducting their 10% commission, they would send the remaining money to the main kingpin. In the investigation conducted by the police, an amount of Rs 1750000 was deposited in the account of the accused. The amount was found to be Rs 26500 in cash, after which the bank account was immediately frozen.
