Hyderabad: Cyber Crimes Wing of Cyberabad Police arrested a cyber-fraudster for developing fake grocery and furniture portals and seized Rs 40 lakh and other material from the accused.
According to the Raidurgam Police, the man identified as Rishabh Upadhyay, 30, alias Chandan, a web developer from Bengaluru and a native of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh developed two websites, www.zopnow.in and www.modwayfurniture.in and introduced as online selling groceries and furniture at cheaper prices.
While staying at a hostel in Bengaluru, Chandan had registered himself on freelancing websites and started working as a freelancer by offering services of developing websites, taking projects from clients, etc.
According to the police, during the Covid19 lockdown, when people starts purchasing groceries online, he selected www.zopnow.com, which was a well-known grocery shopping portal based out of Bengaluru but which was not operational now. He also created a fake furniture website www.modwayfurniture.in by imitating a popular, reputed Canada-based shopping website www.modway.com believing them to be original authentic shopping websites.
According to Cyberabad Cyber Crime Police, the incident came to light after a techie from Khajaguda was cheated and approached the police. During the preliminary investigation, police found he cheated nine persons in Cyberabad and police suspecting many more from across the country,” Sajjanar, Commissioner Cyberabad Police said.
Chandan was arrested from Bengaluru and brought to Hyderabad and remanded in judicial custody.
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