Hyderabad, May 26 -- Cyber fraudsters targeting gullible citizens is common. However, these days they are not leaving even the legislators. The latest target was Goshamahal MLA T Raja Singh, who managed to outsmart the fraudster.

On Monday evening, May 25, Raja Singh got a call from the number 7386719629, from a person who introduced himself as Dileep Kumar, Additional Secretary in the Finance Department of the state government.

The caller informed Singh about the "Pradhan Mantri Viksit Bharat" scheme, through which Rs 3 crore has been allocated for each constituency, to give loans amounting to Rs 10 lakh per head to 30 youngsters, that too on 50 per cent subsidy.

"He asked me how a person like me, who is active in availing such scheme...