In two & a half years, 2,800 persons' easy money dreams turn into jail nightmare

New Delhi: Dream of making easy money landed more than 2,800 persons in jail for cheating people across Delhi and other states since 2017.

Police said that the accused always changed their modus operandi to cheat people. Currently, cheaters are mostly involved in e-wallet cheating in the city.

The Delhi Police data accessed by Millennium Post said that in the current year (till 15 July), as many as 501 persons were arrested for cheating people on various pretexts.

According to a senior officer, the cases include real estate fraud, wallet cheating, duping banks etc. Last year as many as 1,254 persons were nabbed for duping. Investigators in Delhi Police said that online cheaters are changing their modus operandi regularly.

"They are sending debit links of wallet to possible target and once the victim clicked the said link, money is debited from the account," police said.

Adding further, the officer said, "Cheaters have prepared several fake websites of various companies with phone numbers to trap people. When someone calls them related to issues, fraudster posed themselves as company official. After winning the trust of the caller, a link is sent on the victim's phone for cheating."

Police further added that in the year 2017, as many as 1,123 persons were arrested. The data further added that more than 10,000 cases were also registered with Delhi Police.

"Cheating can be of various types (online fraud or real estate fraud). Every detail is minutely investigated. We probe a long chain of documents, suspects to solve the case," police said. More than 1,800 cases were cracked by the law enforcement agency.

Last year the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) investigated 1,107 cases and handled as many as 3,591 complaints in 2018, reveals the Delhi Police data. The investigating agency arrested 144 persons involved in various financial frauds and white-collar crime last year. In one of the cases on the complaint of the private bank, a case was registered against the Directors of a private company for embezzlement of the loan amount (approx. 250 crores) received on the pretext of trading of luxury cars like Porsche and Audi.