Man held for duping people with false electricity bill messages in Delhi
India Today
A man has been arrested for allegedly duping people by sending them false messages claiming that their electricity connection will be disconnected due to non-payment of due bills.
Delhi Police arrested a man for allegedly duping people by sending them false messages claiming that their electricity connection will be disconnected due to non-payment of due bills. Police also recovered 3 mobile phones, 3 SIM cards, 20 debit/credit cards, 4 cheque books, 1 BharatPe POS machine, etc from the accused's possession.
The accused has been identified as Dinesh Chand.
A complaint was lodged at the Cyber police station wherein the complainant alleged that he had received a WhatsApp message stating that his electricity will be disconnected as the previous month's bill was not updated.
“Dear customer, your electricity will be disconnected tonight at 9.30 pm from the electricity office because your previous month's bill was not updated. Please immediately contact our electricity customer service at 8250953970”, the message read.
The complainant also received a call, asking him to download an “Electricity APK” file on his mobile. On downloading and installing the APK file, two transactions amounting to Rs 49,805 and 49,645 were made and the money was debited from his bank account.
After a detailed technical investigation (collection of bank account details, scanning of mobile details), the location of the accused was zeroed down to Dwarka and he was arrested.
