A 27-year-old man was arrested for allegedly dishonest thousands and thousands of rupees to over 200 shopkeepers utilizing a pretend on-line fee app. Police stated the accused Kunal Sharma, a resident of Uttam Nagar, used an app, which seems to be just like the fee app Paytm and Google Pay, and used to pay payments utilizing a pretend app.
The app, Spoof Paytm, makes use of the identical interface as the unique Paytm fee app and generates pretend receipts.
DCP (South West) Injit Pratap Singh stated his group acquired a criticism from an individual named Ramesh Kumar, who runs a basic retailer in Palam village. On 20 May, Sharma got here to Kumar’s store within the night and picked up the groceries. At the time of fee, he requested fee by way of Paytm and put Kumar’s quantity on the app.
There was a notification on Sharma’s telephone which confirmed that the fee was profitable. He additionally despatched a message in regards to the fee to Kumar, who believed Sharma, however later discovered that he had been cheated to the tune of Rs 2,500.
During the investigation, the police discovered that the accused used spoof paytm and recorded Kumar’s quantity on it. App-generated notifications and messages about funds have been bogus.
Police deployed groups and sources to close by retailers and markets to research comparable modalities and report back to the investigation group.
A senior police officer stated, ‘The complainant neither had a telephone quantity nor any particulars of the accused. We relied on sources and technical surveillance, following which we reached out to Sharma, who was arrested from Palam.
During interrogation, the police stated that the accused has confessed to dishonest greater than 200 shopkeepers utilizing the identical app.
Sharma supplied to pay for groceries and different objects by way of a fee app and used spoof Paytm to generate pretend transaction receipts. Seeing the receipts and knowledge, the shopkeepers believed him and the accused fled with the products, ”the police stated.
Police stated Sharma misplaced his job through the lockout and located the app on-line and determined to cheat folks. The accused has cheated folks for lakhs of rupees and his telephone has been confiscated for additional investigation.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
