CHEATS ARRESTED FOR DUPING “AMAZON INDIA”

• 12 LAKH CASH, 25 MOBILE PHONES, 40 BANK PASSBOOKS AND VARIOUS OTHER DOCUMENTS RECOVERED

  The District Cyber Cell, North West District has arrested two persons namely Shivam Chopra r/o Tri Nagar, Ganesh Pura, Delhi who cheated Amazon India company by obtaining refund against the order placed earlier for mobile phones. He used to order costly mobile phones of different companies like Samsung, I phone, 1 Plus etc., and another person namely Sachin Jain r/o Tri Nagar, Delhi used to provide pre-activated sim to Shivam, in case FIR No 435/17 u/s 406,420,468,471 & 120 B IPC PS Keshav Puram, Delhi.

BRIEF FACTS

Brief facts of the case are that a complaint was received at District Cyber Cell, North-West District, AU Block, Pitampura, Delhi in which complainant Ex Capt. Syed Ishaq, aged 36 Years residing at Ramgarh, Basai Darapur, New Delhi, on behalf of Amazon Seller Services Private Limited (“Amazon”) reported a fraud. He alleged that a total of 166 orders for mobile phones were placed by this perpetrator between April 2017 and May 2017, where all the 166 orders were found to be Cash on delivery (COD). All the orders were purchased by this perpetrator through gift cards and post receiving the product use to cancel the orders to claim refunds, which were again refunded to him in the form of gift cards.

Further he used 141 phone numbers and 48 different customer accounts to place these orders and a refund in full was sought against each order. The perpetrator used to place multiple orders from different customer accounts using different phone numbers and for all these orders, he would give misleading addresses in the same locality where he actually resided. Since the addresses were incorrect and misleading, the delivery associate would invariably fail to locate the address mentioned on the package and therefore would call the perpetrator for directions, the perpetrator would then guide him to his current address in the locality and take an open box delivery. This was repeated for all 166 orders that were placed by the perpetrator. However, after taking the deliveries, the perpetrator called up the customer care of Amazon and reported that no items were found in the delivered box and hence refunds were initiated. Enquiry on the said complaint was made and a case vide FIR No. 435/17 dt 17/08/17 u/s 406/420 IPC PS Keshav Puram was registered & investigation was taken up. During the course of investigation, accused person namely Shivam Chopra (Age 21 years) R/o Tri Nagar, Ganesh Pura, Talab Road, Delhi was apprehended on the instance of delivery boys of Amazon company, who delivers the packet to him. He disclosed about his involvement and further disclosed that he purchased all the SIM from one Sachin Jain having a telecom store in his neighborhood. He paid Rs 150 for one SIM and purchased round about 150 pre activated SIMs. He stated that he sold the mobile phones on OLX and in Gaffar Market, Karol Bagh. He had deposited cash in various bank accounts, Rs 10,00,000/- given as token money to some person in his neighborhood and some cash is at his home. He also disclosed that all the mobile phones used by him in the commission of offence are also at his home. During investigation, 19 mobile phones, Rs 12,00,000/- cash , 40 passbooks/cheques of various bank accounts recovered at the instance of accused Shivam. Later accused person namely Sachin Jain was also arrested at the instance of accused person.

INVESTIGATION:

During the course of investigation, the alleged person apprehended from Tri Nagar, Ganesh Pura, Delhi, where he is residing now. During the course of investigation, section 468/471/120B IPC have been added in the case. Two days police custody remand of accused Shivan was obtained and Sachin Jain has been sent to judicial custody. During PC remand 6 mobile phones, documents related to token money given from the cheated amount and 13 order slips of Amazon company have been recovered from the accused Shivam.   

INTERROGATION AND MODUS OPERANDI:

During sustained interrogation, it revealed that accused person namely Shivam was unemployed and his financial condition was also poor. He hatched a conspiracy in which he started placing order for a Mobile Phone Online and after the delivery, he used to make complaint to the company that the box was empty if the company make refund to him on his compliant he will order more phones to earn easy money. According the policy of Amazon Company he uses to get refunds in the form of Gift Vouchers which were further used for online purchase. Later in the month of March, 2017 as per the conspiracy, he ordered two mobile phones from Amazon company and after the delivery of the mobile phones he made a complaint to the company that he got only the empty box and asked for the refund and the company made refund to him for that mobile phones after a few days. After that accused person contacted Sachin Jain who have store to provide him the mobile SIM. Sachin Jain asked him for 150 Rs. for a sim and further he gave the accused person 150 Sims Cards for which Sachin jain himself arranged the fake Identity proof. Later he made 50 different email accounts using these Mobile Numbers and used for placing order mentioning different residential address. When the delivery boy called for the delivery, he used to guide him and mostly use to take in nearby area. The accused person used several bank accounts in the above mentioned fraud for making payment and receiving the refund against the mobile phones.   

PROFILE OF THE ACCUSED

1. Shivam Chopra r/o Tri Nagar, Ganesh Pura, Delhi. He has completed his Hotel Management from Rohini. He had earlier done jobs in various hotels.
2. Sachin Jain r/o Lekhu Nagar, Tri Nagar, Delhi .

Team

1. Insp Nag Bhushan
2. SI Vikas
3. SI Tasvir Mathur
4. HC Manoj
5. Ct. Sanjeet
6. Ct Ramesh
7. Ct. Dhiraj
8. Ct. Pawan

RECOVERY:

1. 12 Lakh Cash
2. 25 mobile phones
3. 40 bank passbooks & Cheque books of various banks containing 10 Lakh deposits.
4. Documents related to token money given from the cheated amount and receipt of Rs. 10 lakh.
5. 13 order slips of Amazon Company.