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Delhi Police recently arrested a gang for online scams amounting to Rs. 150 crore. Reportedly, the three-member gang was inspired by the popular Netflix series Money Heist and even changed their names to those of the characters in the show, partly to conceal their identities while scamming people online.

The gang is headed by Arpit, a lawyer by profession, who goes by the name ‘Professor’ after the iconic main character in the show played by actor Álvaro Morte. His accomplices, Prabhat, who has a masters in Computer Science, became ‘Amanda’ and Abbas became ‘Freddy’.

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How they executed the ‘Money Heist’

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The trio ran a fairly sophisticat

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