Mumbai: Sakinaka Police on Friday arrested three young men in cases suspected of deceiving hotel owners with a total of RS49,400 which they claimed to have paid using e-wallet (paytm) for the food they eats between December 3 (2021) and January 6 ( 2022).
However, the money was never credited to the hotel bank account.
The fraud was observed only on Thursday when one of the accused was identified as Ayush Jagdale (20) returned the same hotel (Hotel Blue Sea) and paid RS2.700 for food booked.
However, the hotel manager noticed that he had not received a transaction credit warning to a bank account for the money shown paid on Jagdale’s cellphone.
The incident raised a curiosity and hotel manager, Rajnish Mishra (28), through all previous transactions made using e-Wallet to make payment of food bills by Jagdale and two friends arrested – Mohammed Khalil aka Anas Shaikh (23) ( 23)) And Ibrahim Kazi (27) – during their previous visit and found that the hotel had never received a total amount of RS49,400 for the food they had in the past month.
Describing the modus operandi, DCP (Zone X) Maheshwar Reddy said, “Trio has used the Spoof E-Wallet (PayTM) application in fraud.
This application resembles the original e-wallet and operated by feeding the merchant’s name and feeding.
Every random cellphone number And the number of bills and entering the payment and payment options made reflected.
“About learning about fraud, Mishra hotel manager told Sakinaka police and complained.
Based on complaints, DCP Reddy oversees Senior Police Inspector Sakinaka Balwant Deshmukh, Delip Thorat Inspector, Sub-Inspector of Tansji Pandare, and detection staff questioned Jagdale and arrested his colleagues within two hours to register the first information report.
“The trio has used the spoofing application that they downloaded from the Play Store after learning about it on the internet,” police said.
The investigation team also investigated whether the trio had thinned other shops or hotels or companies with similar modus operandi using the Spoofing Wallet application.
They are in police custody for fraudulent theft, forgery, and identity of the IPC and IT Law.