Despite police awared people not to respond to the appeal, request of their unknown friends of social media, the people of Dharward district getting cheated everyday.Believing the appeal, request etc of their social media ‘friends’ to get funds, not only innocents but even educated and politicians transferred funds to their Phone Pay, Google Pay accounts and becoming victims to the fraudsters. A son of one of the ministers was the latest example who said to be transfetted thousands of rupees to one of his unknown Facebook friends.Such incidents became headache to police who are getting a few complaints everyday. About 15,000 victims so far have filed complaint with police and hundreds others not filed the cheating to them. Hubballi Dharwad Police Commissioner Laburam asked people to be aware before clicking on the links sent to them. Fraudsters open fake Facebook account and cheat people, by appealing for money by giving false medical or other sympathetic reasond, don’t attend to such requests. Their are possibilities of getting hacked their bank accounts, he said.