Thane: A 33-year-old man was arrested for being reported to cheat more than three dozen jewelry and jewelry in various states of Rs 25 Lakh by damaging the digital payment method from the application and making a fake screen catch for them.
The defendant, Subramaniam Iyer, currently lives in Andheri but the native of Bilalaspur of Chattisgarh was arrested for at least 14 jewelry and 32 applicants in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Chattisgarh, Rajasthan, Delhi etc.
The amount tricked so far around the hospital.
25 lakh and the count is still active, said Sadashiv Nikam, Senior Inspector of the Vartak Nagar Police Station.
The police dug deeper into this case after the complainant registered a violation that the victim was deceived by Rs 97,330 by the defendant.
“The modus Operandi Iyer is that he used to buy goods or booked a hotel room and made a payment through the application to the merchant.
However, while making the payment used to damage digital payment modes.
Usually when he makes payment, it is used to be rejected because of the lack of funds and things Samely indicated on the mobile screen.
However, it is used to make RS payments.
1 in another account from his account that used to succeed, “Nikam told Tii.
The officer added, “he used to damage the same successful transaction and changed the recipient’s name, and the number in it indicated a successful transaction.
Then he used to present the same transaction as the hotel or jewelry and make a purchase in the same way.
“Officers told him that he used to take a failed and successful transaction together and combine them and made the third screen catch that looked similar to those who managed to make a payment.
He used to present a damaged screens’ catch into business and thus cheats them, police said.
The probe also revealed that one similar violation was registered with Shivaji Park and Marg Marg Police Station, police said.