Popular online shopping companies, Flipkart and Amazon, were being reportedly duped of over Rs. 50 lakhs combined.
A man from Hyderabad was arrested for exploiting the return policy of Amazon and Flipkart.
According to various reports, Veera Raghava Reddy was accused of duping Flipkart over Rs. 20 lakh, and Rs. 16 lakh from Amazon.
It was not just him but his entire family involved in the return policy scam. The man and his family members would first place orders of computer accessories from the two shopping websites using fake email IDs, phone numbers and addresses. Later, when couriers delivered the packages, they would remove the items from the boxes or replace them with duplicate items, accusing the sellers of sending sub-standard goods, police report states.
The company, adhering to its customer service policy, would promptly send a courier boy to collect the ‘faulty’ product and replace it with a new one. Not satisfied again, he would ask to cancel his order and seek return of his money.
After repeatedly making such claims, Flipkart has been keeping an eye on Reddy’s movements and reported it to cyber crime police. The sleuths took over and nabbed him.
The Vanasthalipuram police arrested Raghava Reddy on Thursday and seized 120 SIM cards of various mobile service providers, four computer processors and two hard-drives from his possession. The police are probing the case on the basis of a complaint filed by Flipkart.
The police found that the accused had spent Rs. 10 lakh. The police are on the look out for the other accused in the crime.
So much for PM Modi’s ‘Digital India’, maybe this will add fodder to the government’s claim to regulate, monitor, act on Internet activities.