Agartala, With the increasing incidences of digital fraud amid Covid pandemic, Tripura police today issued an alert against some mobile apps that claim to measure blood pressure and oxygen level but it ends up stealing fingerprints of the user.When use of biometric locking systems are increasing day by day, this trend might land users in a position of having no access to their phone passwords and secret codes, a social media post of Tripura police indicates. “Do not download any mobile application which claims to measure your oxygen level and Blood Pressure. It may steal your fingerprints. You may lose your money and control over your mobile number”, the police’s official facebook handle reads. The state cybercrime unit officials said, “As of now, there are no specific complaints registered with them of such nature. But, there is a pan-India cyber coordination program running to curb the widening graph of cybercrimes and also to sensitise netizens of the anticipated problems. Whenever such an incident is reported somewhere in the country, alerts are issued to every state cyber cell unit to make people aware of the matter so that nobody falls prey to these evil traps”. The official pointed out that cybercriminals are clever enough to hatch a new plot every time. Every single case has a different way of fraud and thus people can’t relate to the cases that are reported earlier. Referring to a recent case, he said, an educated boy born and brought up in Agartala had been conned easily.In the first attempt, he was asked to pay a little money for registration for a job in a telecom company. When he had submitted the money he was asked repeatedly for money and he found out that he had deposited Rs 7 lakh so far in the accounts for his job. The boy had lodged an FIR with police after he realized that he was cheated in the fraud net. “A girl has complained that his photos are being circulated all over the internet without her permission. Her social media accounts are hacked and she has lost access to many of her private photos. We are trying to trace the people who are behind it,” police added.