Who is he ?
A 27-year-old man from Madhya Pradesh allegedly took at least four travel portals for a ride by booking over 1,500 air tickets without paying a single penny in the last two years. Rajpratap Parmar, who was arrested on Tuesday along with two of his relatives from Datia, made around Rs 2 crore in the process, said the police.
After discovering an alleged loophole in the payment gateway system of the portals, Parmar — a Class XII passout — approached several travel agencies across the country and provided them air tickets at 80 per cent of the rates available in the market.
How it is started to find ?
The alleged scam was unearthed when a Mumbai-based man booked air tickets for Goa. When he took a printout of the air tickets, he realized that the mobile number and email address mentioned on the ticket did not belong to him. Also, the amount that he had paid and the one mentioned on the ticket was different.
Suspecting that his details may have been compromised, the man submitted written complaints to unit 7 of the Mumbai Crime Branch. During investigation, unit VII in charge Satish Taware and Inspector N Sridhankar found out about the scam.
An officer probing the case said that nearly two years ago, Parmar, who hails from Datia in MP, discovered a loophole in some of the travel portal payment gateways.
How he Hacked ?
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