New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- The Delhi Police Cyber Cell has arrested three Common Service Centre (CSC) operators for allegedly cheating a 72-year-old senior citizen of Rs 1,99,003.54 on the pretext of changing the name on his TPDDL electricity connection.
The accused were identified as Ashish Kumar, Amit Kumar and Umesh Chand, all from Uttar Pradesh. Police said accounts linked to them had recorded transactions exceeding Rs 2.50 crore, with five cyber-fraud complaints from different states also linked to the accused. The victim received a call on July 18 from a person claiming to assist with the name-change process. After being told to pay Rs 13, he was sent an APK file via WhatsApp. Installing it led to the fraudulent transfer from his Punjab National Bank account.
Police traced the accused through call records, IMEI details, IP logs and transaction data.
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