The Delhi Police has arrested three for allegedly cheating people on the pretext of providing them Customer Service Point of a bank under an e-governance scheme by creating a fake website. The people who arrested for doing fraud online or cheating people was done all fraud by making fraud websites.
A customer service point functions like a mini outlet where deposit and withdrawal up to a certain amount can be made. So like all the accused who arrested in this online cheating case provoke people to deposit some kind of amount etc and after that, they did fraud online to the people through
the fake website. The accused have been identified as Vishwajeet Singh (22), Vikas Kumar (19), both residents of Kapashera in Delhi and Sunny Shankar (24) a resident of Nawada, Bihar
According to Vijayanta Arya, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), North West district, a complaint was received in which the complainant Karan Singh alleged that he had applied for a CSP on the website "cspbankmitra.In" under an e-governance scheme.
"He was asked to deposit several amounts on different occasions in various bank accounts for which he was charged on behalf of the company, said the DCP.
"Karan paid `4,89,300 to them. After finding mobile numbers of the accused switched off, so Karan was like shocked that like he deposited several amounts and now the company worker dint attend his phone and than Karan visited the address provided on the website in West Bengal but found that no such company existed on that address," said the DCP adding that a case was registered and all the accused were arrested.
"During interrogation, the accused disclosed that Vishwajeet Singh used to arrange different bank accounts from several people and sold it to Sunny Shankar for transfer the cheated amount," said the DCP.
"Vishwajeet also arranged different mobile numbers for calling the customers. Accused Vikas Kumar provided his bank account detail to Vishwajeet Singh for transferring money on a commission basis, the DCP said.
"Accused Sunny Shankar and his associate from Nawada in Bihar were the main accused involved in creating a fake website and offering lucrative government schemes for committing online frauds," said the DCP adding that another co-accused is still absconding.
