Gang Posing As Sellers Robbed Flipkart Off Rs 17 Lakhs
[dropcap]A[/dropcap] group of nine people posing as online sellers exploited Flipkart's Seller Protection Fund (SPF) and cheated the billion dollar e-commerce giant.
The fraud was being committed since the early 2017 where a group of posers, registered as Flipkart's online seller found a work-around to cheat the company. As per the police report, they studied the SPF scheme that guarantees an automatic refund to the seller if the sold product goes missing or is damaged in transit in case of a return from the customer and plotted to take the company for a ride.
Possibly operating out of West Bengal, the gang had registered as different sellers and started shipping their products via Flipkart's logistics services. Every time the customers returned the product stating that the product i...