In a recent case in Kerala, a scammer posing as a Mumbai Police officer was caught red-handed by the Thrissur City Police in a rather unusual way.

A man presenting to be a police officer calling from "Hyderabad police headquarter" found himself in trouble after mistakenly ringing a real cop. He initiated a video call posing as a policeman, only to realise that he had video called a Kerala police officer who worked with the cyber cell.

A fraudster impersonating a Mumbai police officer in Kerala accidentally video-called a Thrissur Police Cyber Cell officer. The officer, initially pretending to have a faulty camera, eventually revealed his identity,