If you are also thinking of booking a holiday after seeing advertisements of cheap foreign tour packages on social media, then be careful. Noida’s Cyber Crime Police has arrested a vicious swindler who used to give attractive advertisements on Facebook and Instagram to people dreaming of visiting places like Singapore and Vietnam and then defrauded them of lakhs of rupees.
DCP (Cyber) Shaivya Goyal said that the arrested accused has been identified as 33-year-old Aditya Raj. He is originally from Lakhisarai (Bihar) and Noida He was running a black business by living in ‘Amrapali Golf Homes Society’. Police have arrested this mastermind with the help of electronic surveillance.
What was the modus operandi of the fraud?
According to DCP Cyber, the accused’s method of cheating was very vicious. He used to run advertisements on Facebook, Instagram and Google for cheap ‘complete tour packages’ to Singapore, Nepal, Vietnam and Europe. When people contacted him after seeing the advertisement, he used to send them fake booking confirmations to trick them. By winning the trust of the people, he used to get the entire money transferred to his bank accounts. As soon as he received the money, he would get the booked tickets canceled and embezzle the refund money himself.
Fraud of Rs 12 lakh revealed, laptop-mobile recovered
Initial investigation by the police has revealed that the accused Aditya Raj has till now made dozens of people his victims and committed fraud of around Rs 12 lakh. Police have recovered 3 mobile phones and a laptop from him, which contains data of many victims. At present, the police is deeply investigating the bank accounts and social media advertisements of the accused so that other cases of fraud can also be exposed.