The accused purchased Amazon present playing cards from the cash and later offered them. (Representational)
New Delhi:
A 30-year-old man was arrested for allegedly dishonest a retired Delhi College professor on the pretext of redeeming bank card factors, police mentioned on Friday.
The 73-year-old DU professor had filed a grievance final yr alleging that he obtained bulk messages from the accused, providing him to redeem bank card factors. He uploaded his card particulars on the web-link, following which Rs 60,000 was deducted from his bank card, a senior police officer mentioned.
The accused, Vikas Jha, purchased Amazon present playing cards from the cash and later offered them, police mentioned.
Throughout investigation, the present playing cards bought from the alleged transaction was analysed. Particulars of the one that redeemed the alleged present playing cards had been collected, they mentioned.
“It was discovered that a lady, Ashu, had redeemed these present playing cards in Hyderabad. She knowledgeable that her brother Imran purchased the present playing cards from a web based web site from one Adarsh,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (north) Monika Bhardwaj mentioned.
The IP deal with and the cell utilized by Adarsh had been analysed and it was discovered to be the identical which was used to cheat the professor. Additional, the IP deal with was discovered to be registered within the title of Jha, who was in judicial custody, police mentioned.
Jha was lodged in a Delhi jail and has been rearrested in reference to one other dishonest case, they mentioned.
He was arrested for allegedly dishonest an official posted on the Lieutenant Governor’s workplace final yr, police mentioned.
Throughout interrogation, Jha disclosed that he despatched a hyperlink to many individuals looking for particulars akin to card quantity, CVV quantity, date of expiry, MPIN, mail ID and password, they mentioned.
He used the knowledge uploaded by the sufferer for transaction on his Amazon Pay account. He offered a number of present playing cards on-line on an internet site, police added.
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