Pramesh S Jain
The North Division cyber crime police are on the lookout for a conman who posing as pharma company chairman duped accountant of the company to transfer Rs.1.9 Crore.
Based on the complaint by Saravanan V,the police charged the unknown person under IT act and also under section 318(4) (cheating that involves fraudulently inducing someone to deliver property) under BNS for further investigation .
The complaint stated that the conman using the name of picture of the chairman of Pharma company messaged the COO asking details of the company’s bank account on last Monday.The imposter used different number claiming that it was the new number of the chairman .
The company COO forwarded the message to the accountant asking to provide the required details .
The accused claiming to the chairman said that he was in a business meeting with the government representative for a new project and can not talk.
He asked the balance of the company account for which the accountant sent a screenshot on whatsapp to reply , the accused asked him to transfer Rs.1.92 crore required for the new project .
When the complainant asked for the details of the bank account where he could transfer the money, the accused sent a bank account of cargo and courier company situated in Virar,East Mumbai .
Trusting the messages as genuine,the accountant followed the instructions and transferred the money and shared the details with the COO.
The fraud came to light when the chairman was updated with the development who was shocked and said he did not sent any such messages to anyone .
The police are now trying to track down the accused through money transactions.It is one of the common form of cyber fraud, a senior officer said and advised the people to cross check any information before resorting to money transactions .
