New Delhi: Two Haryana males, who allegedly duped folks by hacking meals and grocery supply app Swiggy account, have been arrested, a Delhi Police official mentioned.
The accused Aniket Kalra (25) and Himanshu Kumar (23), used ‘Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system to hack folks’s Swiggy accounts, police mentioned on Monday.
After hacking the sufferer’s account, the accused used to put grocery orders from their account and later offered the gadgets at a cheaper price.
The accused have been arrested when a girl from Sultanpur complained of being cheated of Rs 97,197 from her Lazy Pay account linked with the Swiggy account by some unidentified folks.
The complainant obtained a name in the course of the night time from an Automated Telephony Interactive Voice Response (IVR) System in Pre-Recorded Voice Responses informing her that somebody is trying to entry her Swiggy account. After, her Lazypay account which was linked together with her Swiggy account was hacked and used to put on-line orders totalling Rs 97,197. This info was found by technical evaluation of name particulars and monetary transactions performed throughout the investigation.
“Further, CDR analysis of the calling number revealed that the mobile number from which the complainant received the call is an application-based generated number connected with IVR System. Simultaneously, details from Swiggy were obtained and it came to notice that the alleged orders were delivered in Gurugram,” mentioned the Deputy Commissioner of Police (south) Ankit Chauhan.
The miscreants used cellular numbers registered on pretend possession to ship the merchandise. “The team worked on all the available aspects of the case. The efforts of the team bore fruits when during IMEI search, the location of the suspect was zeroed in Sector 7, Gurugram, Haryana,” mentioned the DCP.
Modus Operandi Used By Hackers To Hack Into Swiggy Account
The police performed raids and apprehended each Aniket and Himanshu. During interrogation, Aniket revealed that he had beforehand labored for Zomato and Swiggy as a supply boy and the modus operandi these accused had used was to dupe folks by IVR calling system.
“Thereafter, he started buying grocery items from online selling platforms at a lower price through offers and then used to sell them in the market, thus saving 5 per cent-10 percent on every order. Further, he along with co-accused Ansh, a resident of Punjab met on telegram and they both started duping people through IVR Calling system,” mentioned the DCP.
Ansh has each element of people that have linked their bank card/debit card/web banking with their Swiggy account. “Ansh used to target victims by hacking their Swiggy account through pre-recorded voice responses and thereby accessing confidential data of victims. Then Aniket used to link a phone number registered on fake ownership with the Swiggy account of the victim and then used to place orders of Grocery items for as much amount as available in the account of the victim,” mentioned the DCP.
To forestall any police motion, they used to offer the random addresses of Gurugram to ship the gadgets. “Aniket and his friend Himanshu used to sell the grocery items in the local market at a discounted price and then used to send 50 percent profit to Ansh via cash depositing machines or various UPI Id’s,” mentioned the DCP.
Himanshu, who has a medical store in Gurugram, used to switch the cheated quantities to varied UPI IDs and accounts, and below the guise of the medical store.
“Further investigation of the case is in progress to trace the co-accused and to link other cases,” the DCP added.
Source: zeenews.india.com
