Dr B Thomas (Special correspondent)
The Cyber crime police are on the lookout for a conman who posing as Managing Director of the company hoodwinked the HR manager to transfer Rs.28.8 lakh online and escaped .
Based on the complaint by Nirmal Jain,owner of the private firm,the police have registered a case against the unknown person charging him under various sections of the IT Act and also under cheating and impersonation under IPC on Sunday.
Mr.Jain in his complaint said that the accused sent a whatsapp message to the HR Manager Thirupathi Rao claiming to be Paras Jain,MD of the company.
The DP contained his photograph and the message said that it was his personal number and he is in a meeting and not to be disturbed .
He asked Mr.Rao to transfer the money to three bank accounts online on an emergency basis.
Assuming that the instructions are from MD,Mr. Rao completed the instructions and transferred a total sum of Rs.28,89,807 to the private bank account numbers mentioned in the message.
The fraud came to light when he informed the senior officials about the transactions.
The police are now trying to track down the accused based on the transactions details .
This is a new trend among online fraudsters who would download the profile pictures of the senior executives of the companies to cheat their office staff.
