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Police of Cyber Cell, Rachakonda arrested Vakudoth Anil Kumar  aged about 25 years,Ex-PAYTM  field executive , r/oH. No. 4-34, Hanuman temple thanda, Laxmakkapally village, Kodakandla  Mandal  for fraudulently transfer of money by doing Fake KYC Verification of Paytm Customers.

Basing on the facts given by the victim  Chikatimalla Vinod Kumar occ: Kirana business R/o Shivaganga Hills  colony, Meerpet  near TKR colony, Hyderabad; registered a case in Cr. No.  132/2018, 417, 419,420 IPC and 66(C) 66 (D) Of IT Act, Rachakonda Commissionerate.

The victim stating that he is running General store at his residence.  For the convenience of the customers he is using PAYTM Wallet vide No.9000508124. About three months back one person called the complainant over phone from SIM No. 7674888016  and informed  him  that there is  cash back offer on the PAYTM account usage and directed him to  get deposit of amounts in his PAYTM wallet. After two or three days of the above phone call, one  person came to his shop and informed  him to update KYC  of the PAYTM and taken the  cell phone of complainant meddled with his PAYTM account and went away. On  march 9th 2018 he deposited an amount of Rs. 5000/- and the same was transferred from his account to the PAYTM account No. 8074471665. Finally the complainant requested to take action against the person who fraudulently transferred amount of Rs. 5000/- from his PAYTM wallet to other PAYTM wallet account No. 8074471665.

Basing on the technical evidence, On the clues and credible information, the team of Cyber Cell comprising P.Saidulu, Inspector of Police and his team apprehended the accused at Uppal, Beerappa Gadda Hyderabad. He accepted his guilt of his offence. From the evidence collected so far it is established that he studied B.Tech. (CSC) in 2014 from Supraja Engineering college, Station Ghanplur, Warangal. After completion of B.Tech. He worked in PAYTM office at Gachibowli as Field executive  from 2016 to Sep-2017. He was paid monthly salary of Rs. 18,000/-. While he was working in PAYTM office, he used to go to upadate KYC of PAYTM wallets of the customers and set his own passwords.  Most of the customers re-set their password to their PAYTM wallets but some of them continue the password set by the accused due to lack of technical knowledge.  He log’s into the PAYTM usage of the victims and keep it pending without logging out with deceitful intention.  The accused searched the PAYTM wallet users available information with him which were not logged out on their Phones and he gets access into it and transfers the amounts to his PAYTM wallet.  Likewise he with drew amounts from the PAYTM accounts of many victims like Vijaykumar of Medipally, Prakash  of Bandlaguda, Srinivas of Malkajgiri,Eshwari of Balapur and Sumalatha of Gayathri nagar  and transferred amounts to his PAYTM wallet and utilized the same for his personal use.

Public are advised not to respond to such fraudsters voice calls/messages who deceive with the names of PAYTM (E-Wallets), banks and insurance companies. These organisations like Banks and insurance companies will never call customers and ask to share their account details at any cost, E-wallet users are strictly adviced to  reset Passwords on daily Basis.

The case was registered by  S.Harinath, Asst. Commissioner of Police and been has investigated by  P.Saidulu, Inspector of Police, Cyber Cell, Rachakonda; under the supervision of  Nagaraju DCP (Crimes), Rachakonda.

The Commissioner of Police, Rachakonda: Mahesh M. Bhagwat, I.P.S., appreciated the efforts put in detecting the case.