New Delhi: A 23-year-old man has been arrested for duping people on the pretext of helping them with online refunds.
The police gave this information on Wednesday. The accused has been identified as Dilip Kumar Jena, a resident of Odisha. A senior police officer said that a case was registered on April 12 in which the complainant had alleged that he was working as a customer care executive of a fintech company. Was looking online for the number of an organization and in the meantime he found the number of an organization and called them.
Police said that the accused person sent a link on WhatsApp to the complainant and asked him to open it. Two lakh rupees were withdrawn from the victim’s account as soon as the link was opened. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Dwarka) M Harshvardhan said that during the investigation, the police checked the beneficiary’s bank account and registered mobile number and found that it belonged to Jena.
After this, the accused was raided and arrested. Police said that Jena, along with co-accused Niranjan Jena, used to divide the amount of swindle in half and give the remaining amount to another accomplice. That the accused used to advertise providing customer care numbers of various institutions and whenever someone contacted them they used to cheat him.
Inputs From: CNN
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