Mumbai: Man held for creating fake MSEDCL bill payment site
MUMBAI: A college dropout from Jharkhand, Charku Mandal (27), has been arrested for creating a fake website of Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL), and sending fraudulent payment links to dupe customers.
Several citizens were duped after they received fraudulent messages warning of them of immediate power cut unless they made bill payments on the link to the website. TOI, on January 21, had published the article ‘FIR filed after users get SMS to pay power bill on fake link’.
Mandal was tracked within 15 days after he hosted the fake MSEDCL website on January 17. “He managed to dupe many customers to the tune of Rs 65,648 during the two weeks of hosting the website,” said DCP (Mumbai cyber)
