Three arrested for cheating people by creating a fake website

Three men were arrested for allegedly cheating people on the pretext of providing them Customer Service Point (CSP) of a bank under an e-governance scheme by creating a fake website, police said Wednesday.

A customer service point functions like a mini outlet where deposit and withdrawal up to a certain amount can be made.

The accused were identified as Vishwajeet Singh (22), Vikas Kumar (19) and Sunny Shankar (24).

A fake website in the name of cspbankmitra.in was created for opening customer service point under an e-governance scheme, police said.

In his complaint, one Karan Singh alleged that he had applied for a CSP on the website cspbankmitra.in under an e-governance scheme.

"He (Karan) was asked to deposit several amounts on different occasions in various bank accounts for which he was charged on behalf of the company," said Vijayanta Arya, Deputy Commissioner of Police (northwest).

Karan paid Rs 4,89,300 to them. After finding mobile numbers of the accused switched off, Karan ..