Delhi: 21-year-old held for making lakhs by falsely claiming refunds from Amazon

The police on Wednesday arrested a 21-year-old for duping online store Amazon by claiming that he received empty boxes on the purchase of expensive smartphones.

The 21-year-old bought over 166 expensive mobile phones from the online stores and got refunds of lakhs of rupees.

As per police, Shivam Chopra was successful in making approximately Rs 50 lakh in the span of two months. 

Shivam was taken into custody after Amazon complained to police about the repeated offense.

The accused did course in Hotel Management from an institute in New Delhi’s Rohini area. He did not get job after doing course. He got enthused after being successful in claiming for refunds in two of the cases.

Further, Shivam made business out of the claiming refunds for phone from Amazon.

Shivam would get refund and sale mobile phones either on OLX or Gaffar Market in New Delhi.