pune the chinchwad police are looking for a man who duped a mobile store of rs 6 lakh by using a prank payment app to purchase four highend smartphones on april 22 when the store manager found that the amount had not been credited to the stores bank account he approached the police and filed a complaint this is the second such case of cheating in pimpri chinchwad in the last 15 days on april 13 a woman had stolen a mobile handset worth rs 45000 from a shop along dighi road in bhosari when contacted the complainant told toi that on april 22 the man came to the mobile store in chinchwad and initially purchased two handsets after exchanging his old ones we received the payment of the two handsets which was made online the complainant said however after some time the person came to the store again and selected four mobile handsets worth rs 6lakh this time the man made the payment using neft said the complainant the man showed the store staff a screenshot of the transfer of funds on his mobile phone we did not suspect anything and gave him the handsets the complainant said adding we have filed a complaint against the unknown man as per an officer from the chinchwad police a prima facie probe revealed that the man used a prank payment app to dupe the store employees these apps show the phone number amount sent and transaction id just like any authentic app the traders tend to not suspect anything and allow the customer to leave with their purchases we have further collected closedcircuit television cctv camera footage from different spots around the store and our probe is on the officer addedin december 2021 the pimpri chinchwad police had arrested an it engineering student who had duped as many as 25 jewellers by misusing such prank apps