Fake e-commerce website used to dupe scores, DU graduate among two held

NEW DELHI: A former call centre employee and a DU graduate teamed up to cheat people by running a fake e-commerce website and luring them with free gifts. The two conned around 500 people of around Rs 80 lakh. Police said Lalit Prasad (25) and Pradeep Kumar (25) started an online portal, “www.kart4all.com”. They opened a small call centre in southeast Delhi’s Tughlaqabad Extension from where they ran their operations.
The gang came on police radar after a Maharashtra-based student filed a complaint. He told cops that, in February, he got a call from a man claiming to be an executive of a Delhi-based online shopping company. He was told that since the company was expanding its business, it was running a promotional offer and giving away free gifts to a select few.
To claim the gift, the student was asked to purchase any item worth at least Rs 500 from the website. The youth purchased a bedsheet from the website and was then contacted by “executives” of the company that they were sending him a laptop worth Rs 80,000.