
A 15-year-old boy in Delhi squandered more than 200,000 Indian rupees from his grandfather’s bank account on Player Unknown’s Battleground (PUBG).
A 65-year-old resident of Delhi got a text message from his bank that only Rs275 was left in his account in May. Suspecting foul play, he immediately lodged a complaint with the Timarpur police station.
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A few months later, his complaint was transferred to the Cyber Cell Hub that revealed that the man’s grandson had used the money in the pension account for in-game purchases without his knowledge.
The amount had been transferred from the account to a Paytm wallet through OTP, which belongs to a 23-year-old man named Pankaj Kumar who confessed that his friend had been using the wallet. The friend turned out to the complainant’s grandson.
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No legal action was taken against the teenager as his grandfather decided to let go of the matter.
The boy said he had been playing PUBG for a few months and wanted to make purchases for which he used his grandfather’s pension. He also confessed that he had deleted the OTP text messages from his grandfather’s phone.
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