Puducherry: Police have registered a case against two West Bengal men who ‘hacked’ the e-mail ID of a construction company owner in Puducherry 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 the mobile number ‘CUG’ to contact his company officers and employees.
In this case, he was shocked to see that Rs. 5 lakh had been transferred from his bank account to another bank account twice on April 11. But the corresponding SMS was not received on his mobile number. E-mail only arrived.
He lodged a complaint with the Puducherry Cyber Crime Police. Accordingly, the police conducted an investigation under the leadership of Inspector Manoj.
In it, they ‘hacked’ Pradaban’s e-mail ID, got his mobile number and got a duplicate ‘SIM’. Due to this, Pradapan’s ‘SIM’ became inactive.
Before he could detect it, the fraudsters had withdrawn Rs 5 lakh each from Prathaban’s bank account twice through ‘duplicate SIM’ and e-mail.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.
Due to this, the cyber crime police have registered a case and West Bengal has rushed to catch the fraudsters.
This is the first time such a new scam is happening in Puducherry and the police have warned people using CUG numbers to be vigilant.
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