Two held for duping customers through online portals

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police has busted a gang of cheats and arrested two persons who used to cheat people on online shopping portals. The arrested duo has been identified as Ashish Kumar and Bhavjeet singh.

A tip-off was received by the Crime Branch, Chanakyapuri, that a gang is active in cheating innocent persons by offering them high-end cars at a very lucrative price. The gang members used to advertise high-end cars like BMW, Toyota Fortune, Renault Duster, Skoda on shopping portals and keep the prices exceptionally low. For this purpose, they would simply pick the images of these vehicles randomly from the internet and post them on the site. The buyers while scanning these sites would see the exceptionally low prices of these cars and would contact Ashish Kumar, who was the mastermind of this gang.

Ashish would further convince the buyer that the vehicle belongs to a person posted in a foreign embassy and since this person is posted outside, he urgently requires to sell his vehicle. For this purpose, he had also forged the identity card of a personnel working at an embassy and if the customer, so desired, he would post the image of that ID card, to convince the buyers to fall into the trap.

Ashish further used to convey that since there are a large number of buyers of the said vehicle, he needed urgent confirmation and token money to be paid in a bank account. And for this purpose, he used the account of one accused, Bhavjeet Singh, where the customer would ultimately deposit the advance payment. "He would further convince the buyer that since the vehicle is lying in the embassy premises and he would not be able to show them the vehicle. Later, they would convince the potential buyer to deposit token money in the account. Two mobile phones and one ATM card have been recovered from the accused," said Joint CP Crime Alok Kumar.