Army Alerts Jawans Of Honey Traps On Social Media As Two Shady Profiles Try To Add Them

The honey trap method is tried and tested way to get information and agencies globally have been using this method where beautiful women lure men sitting at positions of strategic importance in order to sneak crucial information sensitive to country¡¯s security or economy.

In the past couple of years, several cases have come up where women have been found honey trapping officials from various departments and keeping this in mind, the Indian Army has cautioned its soldiers against a suspected Instagram account which is believed to be targeting officers and troops from the special forces.

The Directorate of Military Intelligence on issued an advisory to its personnel saying that social media profile on Instagram with name ¡°Oyesomya¡± and ¡°Gujjar Soumya¡± on Facebook have ¡°duplicitous credentials¡± and the profile could spying to extract classified information from the personnel, a report in News18 said.

"She [Gujjar Soumya] claims to be the sister of late Captain Pawan Kumar. She claims to be currently studying as a research scholar in IIT Bombay and that she has cleared IIT JEE 2016 and NTSE 2014," the advisory read. According to NDTV, the Instagram handle of the suspected spy has been removed.

The advisory said that these profiles might have been created to make inroads into the social media accounts of the personnel in order to extract classified information.

A soldier was arrested in January this year for sharing sensitive information and pictures of the location and army exercises with a woman who was an operative for Pakistan spy agency ISI. She had befriended him on social media.

In January, a soldier was arrested after he was caught sharing sensitive information and pictures of his location and army exercises with operatives of Pakistan spy agency ISI after being honey-trapped on social media.