2 arrested in Kanpur for duping people of Rs 1.2 crore through OTP fraud

The accused would withdraw substantial amounts from the accounts of people they had duped after they obtained OTPs or pin numbers from their targets.

Two people were arrested by Kanpur Police on Monday for duping people of over Rs 1.2 crore using OTP fraud. The two accused told the police that they would dupe people by asking them for OTPs or the pin number of their accounts.

They would then withdraw substantial amounts from the accounts based on the obtained OTPs and transfer the funds to their own account, the police said.

The two arrested have been identified as Shubham Tiwari and Shivam Yadav.

The fraud came to light when the Kohana police station received information on November 17 that a sum of Rs 1.2 crore had been withdrawn in a single day from a current account at the ICICI Bank on Halsi Road. Out of this amount, Rs 1.11 crore was separately deposited and transferred to various accounts.

Acting on this information, the police, along with the Crime Branch team, detained two accused and interrogated them on Monday. During their interrogation, the accused told the police how their team duped people by asking them for OTPs or pin numbers.

FRAUD CROSSED STATE LINES

While the Kohana Police was investigating the case, they were contacted by the Vidyaranyapura Police Station in Bengaluru who sought their cooperation as they had registered a similar case.

The police then interrogated the two accused again and they revealed that they had used a Bengaluru-based company for their OTP fraud racket. A woman in the city was duped of Rs 4.24 lakh by the accused and she had registered a case at the Vidyaranyapura Police Station on November 9.

The police are currently interrogating Shubham Tiwari and Shivam Yadav and searching for other members of their gang.

Published By:
chingkheinganbi mayengbam
Published On:
Nov 29, 2023