Due to the increasing cyber crime in the country, many people become victims of fraud every day. But the Cyber Cell of Delhi Police has arrested such a fraudster, who himself was once a victim of fraud. After that the fraudster contacted those people who used to carry out the fraud through social media and other means. The fraudster has been identified as Rajat Agarwal of Sirsa, Haryana. Rajat himself has been an MBA student and is a budding singer.
The Cyber Cell of Delhi Police has arrested Rajat for allegedly duping people on social media on the pretext of promising them double their money. This accused named Rajat Agarwal has completed his MBA from Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa and is also a singer. His exploits came to light after a woman had said that she was duped of Rs 1.7 lakh by an Instagram user.
The woman, who filed a complaint at Delhi’s Cyber Police Station, said that a thug had lured her into a trap by promising to double her money on Instagram. The complainant said that she fell under the guise of a thug and had sent about 1.7 lakhs to him in three times through UPI. After this, the thug demanded another Rs 1.12 lakh from the woman, due to which the woman understood that she was being cheated. Then the woman gave a complaint to the cyber cell.
Police said that after the complaint, this Instagram user was kept under technical surveillance for several days and then it was found that all these IP addresses were linked to thug Rajat Agarwal. After this, a team of police raided Haryana and arrested him. During interrogation, accused Rajat told that once he was cheated of Rs 5000 in the name of verifying his Instagram account.
Accused Rajat told that after the fraud, he got some Instagram accounts. These accounts promised people to double their money in a very short time. According to Rajat, he too approached such people and then worked for them. For this, a fake Instagram ID and commission was given by those people. However, some of their bank accounts were frozen following complaints from several victims.
However, the accused had again started promoting the scheme of ‘double money offer’ through fake Instagram IDs to dupe people in March this year. In this episode he asks the victims to buy gift cards/e-vouchers from leading portals like bluestone.com and tells that it is a process of doubling the money. Police also recovered e-gift cards and vouchers, two mobile phones, two Google accounts and an Instagram account, used in the cyber fraud, worth Rs 15 lakh.