Man loses money to online fraudster with a similar email id created by the fraudsters.
A south Mumbai-based businessman lost Rs 17.40 lakh to an online fraudster in a case of email spoofing wherein an email id similar to the original was generated by the fraudsters to siphon off money.
Harsh Jain, a businessman filed a tender with a Pakistani company for supplying equipment related to oil mining. Jain received an email from the company stating that he had bagged the tender, following which he received another email from the agent who mediated the tender, asking to transfer fees of Rs 17.5 lakh to a given bank account.
Shortly, he received an unknown international call, the caller stating that he was calling on behalf of the agent and told Jain he would receive another email with another bank account number to which the money must be transferred. And the unsuspecting businessman did so, only to receive another email, a few days later from the agent station they had not received the money which is when Jain realized he had been duped and approached the police.
“We scrutinized both the emails and found that the email id and the emails were fake. In the second email, there was a slight change in the ID. We have registered a case against an unknown person for online fraud,” said a police officer from Byculla police station.
For those who make payments online, beware! Cases of email spoofing are common in cyber frauds with the fraudsters make a slight change to the original email id.
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