Archive · 8 Aug 2026
Two arrested for routing cyber money through electricity bills
Some bad people tricked a man living in Delhi into putting a special app on his phone.
The app let them take money from his credit card without his permission.
In this way, they stole more than Rs 2.24 lakh from him.
Police started investigating how the stolen money was moved around.
They found that part of the money was used to pay someone's electricity bill.
The police then arrested two men, Phool Singh and Sushil Kumar.
These men are accused of paying real people's electricity bills with stolen money.
After the bills were paid, the men collected the money in cash from those people.
They kept a small fee of 5 to 10 per cent and passed the rest along.
The police say this helped the fraudsters turn stolen digital money into cash.
Police arrested Phool Singh, 30, and Sushil Kumar, 40, in New Delhi during an investigation into an online fraud case.
The two allegedly paid genuine consumers' electricity bills with proceeds of cyber fraud and then collected the amounts in cash.
The fraud case involved a Shakarpur resident cheated of over Rs 2.24 lakh after installing a malicious APK application.
Police traced Rs 1.82 lakh of the defrauded money to the payment of an electricity bill.
The accused retained commissions of 5 to 10 per cent before routing the remaining money further through a network of intermediaries.
- Who
- Phool Singh (30) and Sushil Kumar (40), arrested by police; the victim was a resident of Shakarpur.
- What
- The two men allegedly helped cyber fraudsters convert scam proceeds into cash by paying consumers' electricity bills and collecting the amounts in cash.
- When
- The arrests were reported on a Friday during an investigation into an online fraud case.
- Where
- New Delhi; the complainant resided in Shakarpur.
- Why
- To launder proceeds of online scams into cash while retaining commissions of 5 to 10 per cent.
- Suspects
- Phool Singh (30) and Sushil Kumar (40)
- Fraud amount
- Over Rs 2.24 lakh
- Amount traced to electricity bill
- Rs 1.82 lakh
- Commission charged
- 5-10 per cent
- Victim location
- Shakarpur, Delhi
- Scam method
- Fraudsters posing as gas company officials; malicious APK app on victim's phone
- Arrest location
- New Delhi