Fake website resembles govt portal, hundreds of pensioners duped

The Delhi Police has busted a gang, arresting four cheats who duped more than 1,800 people on the pretext of offering them life certificate for pensioners, officials said on Wednesday. The accused were identified as Amit Khosa, Kanav Kapoor, Binoy Sarkar and Shankar Mondal, they said. According to police, the matter came to light after a complaint was received from the National Informatics Centre that some fraudsters created a website https://jeevanpraman.online/ resembling the government portal. Majority of the content was copied from the actual government portal and they were accepting payments through this fake website from the customers for Jeevan pramaan services. Police said Jeevan Praman is an initiative of Government of India launched on November 10, 2014. It is a biometric-enabled digital service for one crore pensioners of the central government, state government and other government organizations.