Digital Wallet E-Sewa Employee Arrested for Fraud

Kathmandu. A person who defrauded the general public by posing as an employee of the digital wallet E-Sewa has been arrested by the Cyber Bureau of Nepal Police. Shubham Sah, 22, from Rautahat, who was involved in defrauding money by luring people with promises of talking from E-Sewa and having many reward points in the account and asking for OTP, has been arrested by a team from the Bureau. 

According to the victim, Sah repeatedly called the mobile number of 'Yak & Co. Enterprises'. Under the pretext of checking the E-Sewa account, he obtained the OTP and transferred Rs 198,499 from the victim's account to the E-Sewa ID of 'Evolution Trading Private Limited'.

It has been revealed from the investigation that after transferring the amount, he also took an iPhone-17 mobile from Evolution Trading. A special team dispatched from the Bureau arrested Sah and recovered 4 mobile phones and 4 SIM cards used in the fraud from his possession. 

In addition, 153 E-Sewa IDs and mobile numbers of the general public, collected for the purpose of scamming or defrauding, written in a diary or on paper, were also recovered from him. 

Sah, who was arrested, has been taken into custody by the Cyber Bureau for four days by order of the Kathmandu District Court for investigation into the crime of fraud using electronic means.

During the preliminary investigation by the police, it was found that Sah had been arrested twice before for similar digital fraud cases and had been released on bail by the court. 

Dilip Kumar Giri, spokesperson and information officer of the Cyber Bureau, has alerted the general public to be aware of such types of fraud.