They learned through a YouTube video…
New Delhi: working with an e-commerce company an 18-year-old class X student has been arrested along with his two associates for allegedly duping people on the pretext of delivering parcels. While calling people through an app the suspects use virtual numbers, assuming these cannot be tracked.
Police have identified them as Akash Jain (18), and his associates Anmol (21), a class XII student, and Rohan (23), a final-year law student. All of them lived in east Delhi.
DCP (Rohini) Guriqbal Singh Sidhu said the suspects pretended to be delivery boys and contacted targets asking for the OTP to deliver the parcels.
"After receiving the OTP, they registered a different mobile number in the victim's wallet and transferred the money from the wallet to theirs," he said.
Through a YouTube video Akash learned this trick and began to exploit it, the police said.
A complaint was registered by a woman to the national cybercrime reporting portal after she was duped with RS 5,000. After she shared the OTP with the person confessing him as delivery agent, she got a notification in which a new mobile number was registered in her wallet, and money was transformed from her wallet.
The case was solved by a team of ACP Ishwar Singh and inspector Ajay Dalal who analyzed the money trail and traced the siphoned money to a payment bank wallet.
Further, the money was transferred to a different bank account which was in the name of Anmol.
On the basis of technical analysis, the suspect was found to be based at Shyam Nagar and apprehended," the DCP added. Anmol led the police to the other two.
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