Kathmandu. Four people have been arrested on the charge of defrauding the general public by claiming to be employees of the mobile wallet service ‘Khalti’.
Those arrested are Subham Kumar Jha, Aniket Kumar Yadav, Pawan Kumar Chaudhary and Rishi Ganga. They were arrested by the team of District Police Complex Bhaktapur.
According to the police, they used to give various temptations to the customers saying that they were employees of Khalti. According to the police, they made you believe by saying that ‘your KYC must be updated, otherwise the wallet will be closed’, ‘I will add your bank account to the wallet’, ‘I will make an e-speaker that informs when funds are received in the business account’ and ‘I will make arrangements so that no fee will be charged when transferring funds’.
According to the police, after making them believe in this way, they make audio and video calls through phone and WhatsApp and ask the customer to share the screen and also take the OTP code. According to the police, the money was cheated by giving unauthorized access to the bank account.
The police are investigating the incident further.