“BEWARE I have been cheated by them. #Living Liquidz I paid upfront and when the ordered item didn’t turn up they stopped picking up my calls,” Azmi wrote. Police reportedly said that the accused have been traced to Saharanpur but arrests haven’t been made yet.
After Azmi had lodged the complaint, she’d clarified that she hadn’t been duped by Living Liquidz. Instead, the fraudsters were posing as the company.
The Maharashtra Cyber inducted a team of IIT and IIM students to handle the case. The 26 cyber experts traced the IP address. Azmi had reportedly ordered from the official Living Liquidz website but was subsequently contacted by the fraudsters.
“We suspect that an insider used to redirect the orders received by the liquor store to the phishing fraudsters, who then contacted the victim and minted money off of them. We have traced and identified the accused to Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, and will soon send our teams there to nab them,” said Yashasvi Yadav, Inspector General,…