Mumbai Police have arrested four members of an interstate gang allegedly involved in cheating an e-commerce company of more than Rs 34 lakh by exchanging the stickers of goods parcels, officials said, reported news agency PTI.
The accused persons used to order one costly and two cheap electronic or electrical products at a time from the e-commerce company`s website. Instead of accepting the order on the given address, they used to collect it mid-way by conspiring with the delivery boys, an official said on Tuesday.
After accepting the delivery, they used to remove stickers (of product details and price) from the parcels. They pasted low-cost product stickers to expensive items and high-cost product stickers to cheaper goods, he said, reported PTI.
They would then return cheaper products as costly items to the e-commerce company and keep the expensive goods with them, he said.
By using this modus operandi, the gang had duped the e-commerce company of lakhs of rupees, senior police inspector Laxmikant Salunkhe said.
On Monday, the crime branch officials received information that the gang members were coming to Borivali in Mumbai to accept an order delivery, he said, reported PTI.
Accordingly, a trap was laid in Borivali (West) and the police arrested four gang members, hailing from Haryana and Chhattisgarh, the official said, reported PTI.
The police recovered goods, a car and a tempo collectively valued at Rs 45 lakh from the accused, he added.
Private firm`s bank account used by cyber criminals for transactions in 75 cases; director arrested
In another case, a director of a private firm, whose bank account was found to have been used in at least 75 cases of online fraud to circulate the proceedings of crime, has been arrested by the cyber wing of the Mumbai police`s crime branch, an official said on Tuesday, reported PTI.
The accused was identified as Bhavik Mohan Pethana, a resident of Siddharh Nagar, Goregaon, reported PTI.
Cyber fraudsters duped a person of Rs 4.12 crore between August 20 to September 4 by persuading him to `invest` in stock market, the official said.
During investigation, the South Region Cyber Police led by senior inspector Nandkumar Gopale found that the money had been transferred to various bank accounts, reported PTI.
Riyaz Thange (22), a resident of Mumbra in Thane district, was arrested on September 16 as one of the accounts was found to be in his name, reported PTI.
Police also found that another such account with two transactions of Rs 75 lakh each was in the name of Ascent IT Service Ltd, having its office at West Bengal, and Bhavik Pethna and Pranab De Sarkar were the directors of the firm, reported PTI.
Cyber Police tracked Pethna in Goregaon and arrested him on Monday, the official said.
Probe found that this account had been used to receive money in as many as 74 past cases registered on the National Cyber Crime Portal, he said.
(With inputs from PTI)
