Puducherry-Police are on the lookout for two West Bengal assailants who stole the e-mail ID of a construction company owner and withdrew Rs 10 lakh from his bank account.
Pradapan, 70, hails from Periyar, Puducherry; He runs a construction company. He is doing his corporate budgeting in a nationalized bank account.
Also, he is using a group communication mobile phone number called CUG to contact his company officers and employees.
In this case, he was shocked to see that 5 lakh rupees had been transferred from his bank account to another bank account twice on April 11.
His mobile phone number did not receive the SMS. Only e-mail has arrived. In this regard, he lodged a complaint with the Puducherry Cyber Crime Police. Inspector Manoj and the police investigated.
In it, Pradapan’s e-mail ID was stolen, his mobile phone number was obtained and a fake ‘SIM’ was obtained. Due to this, Pradaban’s SIM was disabled.
Before he could figure it out, the fraudsters had withdrawn Rs 10 lakh from Prathaban’s bank account twice, at the rate of Rs 5 lakh each, through a fake SIM and e-mail.
It was revealed that Nigam Shah and Partha Mondal from West Bengal were involved in this scam and the money was transferred to their private bank account.
Accordingly, the cybercrime police have registered a case and West Bengal has rushed to catch the fraudsters.
In Puducherry, this is the first time such a scam is happening and the police have warned that people using CUG numbers should be vigilant.
Subscribe Dinamalar channel for new news