IRCTC website scam: Arrest made as man rakes in 30 lakhs selling fake tatkal tickets
Delhi : The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has detained a guy from Delhi for breaking into the Indian Railways' IRCTC website. His plan comprised buying Tatkal quota train tickets illegally on the website and reselling them for exorbitant sums of money.
The defendant, known as Moinuddin Chisti, ran a ticketing business in Ayodhya Ganj, Greater Noida. He comes from Dadri, Uttar Pradesh. He used unapproved software, including Nexus, Sikka V2, and BigBoss, to exploit the IRCTC website over the course of two years. He was able to automate the entire procedure, including payment, and generate false profiles using these technologies.
Chisti discovered how to obtain exclusive tickets earlier than other individuals. The Tatkal and VIP portions of the trains were covered by these tickets, Then, he would extortively resell these tickets for up to four times the original price. Numerous rules of the Indian Railways were broken by this activity, including the ban on using third-party software to book tickets and the transfer of sold tickets.
The local cybercrime team discovered his plan after discovering several Tatkal reservations coming from the same mobile number. They informed the Railway Police Force as a result, which resulted in Chisti's arrest. In the course of the inquiry, investigators confiscated laptops, a phone, a printer, 88 more fake tickets, and Rs 1.55 lakhs in cash.
In addition to violating the Indian Home Railways Act of 1989, Chisti's acts included selling tickets to unregistered people under fraudulent names. Despite having a BSc in mathematics, he turned to criminal tactics to swindle passengers of Rs 30 lakhs over a two-year period.
This event is only one of the scams that plague the Indian Railways. IRCTC has been advising customers to only use authorized booking channels, such as offline counters, the IRCTC website and app, and registered IRCTC agents, in order to counteract this fraud. Recently, a phishing fraud using a fake IRCTC app surfaced, tricking customers into paying for canceled Tatkal bookings.
Then, he would extortive resell these tickets for up to four times the original price. Numerous rules of the Indian Railways were broken by this activity, including the ban on using third-party software to book tickets and the transfer of sold tickets.
The local cybercrime team discovered his plan after discovering several Tatkal reservations coming from the same mobile number. They informed the Railway Police Force as a result, which resulted in Chisti's arrest. In the course of the inquiry, investigators confiscated laptops, a phone, a printer, 88 more fake tickets, and Rs 1.55 lakhs in cash.
In addition to violating the Indian Home Railways Act of 1989, Chisti's acts included selling tickets to unregistered people under fraudulent names. Despite having a BSc in mathematics, he turned to criminal tactics to swindle passengers of Rs 30 lakhs over a two-year period.
This event is only one of the scams that plague the Indian Railways. IRCTC has been advising customers to only use authorized booking channels, such as offline counters, the IRCTC website and app, and registered IRCTC agents, in order to counteract this fraud. Recently, a phishing fraud using a fake IRCTC app surfaced, tricking customers into paying for canceled Tatkal bookings.
