Man held for duping Rs 1.58 lakh on pretext of traffic challan
NEW DELHI: A 24-year-old man was arrested for allegedly duping a youth of Rs 1.5L after installing an APK file in the name of a pending traffic challan, hacking the victim’s phone, and transferring the money, police said on Tuesday.
The accused has been identified as Ajay Kumar, a resident of Jalandhar in Punjab, they said.
The accused installed a malicious APK file on the victim’s phone, masquerading as a pending traffic challan notification. Using this, he hacked the victim’s phone and transferred Rs 1.5 lakh to multiple credit cards. The cheated amount was later encashed from the credit card and deposited into bank accounts to obscure the money trail.
