Rs.95.80 lakh siphoned from Jamshedpur firm account by hacking owner's mobile phone
Jamshedpur, July 19 -- In a shocking case of cyber fraud, Rs.95.80 lakh was siphoned off from the account of a company by hacking it's owner's mobile phone, police said on Saturday.
"An FIR has been registered against the unknown accused for the cyber fraud on the complaint by Ankit Poddar, co-director and brother of Sharad Poddar, the owner of the company M/S Vananchal Concast Pvt Ltd. The accountant received a phone call from Sharad Poddar's number asking him to transfer Rs.95.80 lakh immediately to an account number in Kavathe Mahankal branch of the ICICI Bank in Maharashtra. Further investigation is ongoing," Sri Nivas, Jamshedpur cyber police station (PS) officer-in-charge (OC), told HT on Saturday.
According to the FIR, the cyber fraudsters called up the accountant of the Vananchal Concast Pvt Ltd around 12.33 pm on Friday posing as the company owner Sharad Poddar from the latter's phone number by hacking his mobile phone.
"They asked the accountant Chinmay Ghosh immediately transfer Rs.95.80 lakh in view of an emergency to an account number in Kavathe Mahankal branch of the ICICI Bank in Maharashtra. As the mobile number was that of Sharad Poddar's, Ghosh immediately transferred the amount to the said account. The fraud came to the notice after Ghosh and other company officials enquired about this with Sharad Poddar himself. To their shocking, Sharad Poddar said that he didn't ask anyone to transfer any amount to any account," the complaint stated.
"Preliminary investigation has traced the account in which the money was transferred is registered in the name of M/S Sureshot Crop Science Pvt Ltd. Notice has been sent to the ICICI Bank branch of Kavathe Mahankal requesting the management to freeze the transaction and the said account immediately," a cyber police officer said....
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