Delhi Fraudsters withdraw Rs 52,000 from PhonePe wallet in Burari, arrested later

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New-Delhi: Atleast two men were arrested for allegedly withdrawing Rs 52,000 from an account of a person through Phone pe in Burari area of Delhi.

The accused have been identified as Sanjay, 40, a resident of Mukundpur, and Rahul Das, 24, a resident of Burari.

Report says, on November 3, one Sandeep Sharma had filed a complaint about the loss of his mobile phone. On November 5 when he bought a new phone and activated the SIM card, he saw that his PhonePe wallet was active and an amount of ₹ 52,860 was withdrawn by an unidentified person, following which he filed a complaint at the Burari police station.

During the course of investigation, police found from the e-wallet application and identified the beneficiary. Later Sanjay and Das were arrested from Burari.

Burai Police found that Das found the lost phone of the victim and opened the lock of the phone as he was tech savy. Later, he changed all the pins of the required applications and transferred money to pan shop owner Sanjay in six to seven transactions, police said.

The pan shop owner kept a part of the money with himself and handed over the remaining amount to Das, police informed.

Later, the police recovered the mobile phone of the victim and a new device from Das possession.

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