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In a unique way to spread awareness among people about separate ways of online forgeries, Raipur Police have created a ten-headed effigy of Ravan (Cyber Ravan) and kept it at different locations in the city at separate times. 
The 10-headed ‘Cyber Ravan’ created by Raipur Police highlights different types of online foregoes being executed by cyber fraudsters taking advantage of people’s lack of awareness. The forgeries highlighted by the effigy of Ravan include telegram-like share task forgery, OLX army fraud, OTP fraud, loan application forgery, cyber online fraud, sextortion (nude video call) fraud, WhatsApp DP fraud, insurance fraud, online link forgery, and customer care fraud.
The effigy of Cyber Ravan highlights that the lack of people's awareness is the strength of cyber fraudsters.
Raipur ASP Pitambar Singh Patel said, “We have tried to make people aware of different types of cyber frauds. Now, during Dussehra, a huge number of people come out to watch Ravana...so to use this opportunity to spread awareness, we have created Cyber Ravana. Through this, we want to spread the message that cyber awareness is the only way to not fall prey to cyber fraud...”