2 HELD IN 80L FRAUD
Mateen Hafeez TNN
Mumbai:
The cyber crime investigation cell has arrested two persons, including a
Nigerian national, for hacking into the email account of an IPS officer
and sending mails to his contacts requesting them to put money into his
bank account. A friend of the complainant, who did not verify the
facts, deposited Rs 2.6 lakh in the account. The hacker sent emails to 79 contacts of the additional DGP (name withheld). He wrote that the complainant was in America and his bag—containing money, passport and documents—was stolen and he needed money urgently.
The crime branch filed an FIR on January 18. A
team—under the supervision of crime branch chief Himanshu Roy and
additional commissioner Niket
Kaushik—began the probe. The complainant said he got a call from a
friend asking if he needed money. The IPS officer took details of the
email his friend
had received. Suspecting phishing, he lodged the complaint. By then, a
businessman friend of the IPS officer had already deposited Rs 2.6 lakh
in the
account. “The complainant’s account was hacked into on January 6. We
traced the Internet Protocol address of the email to Nigeria. The bank
account was in an Udaipur bank in Rajasthan,” said police.
Cops
reached Udaipur, collected the details of the account holder, who said
he withdrew money and hand it over to an Udaipur resident, Deepak
Sethiya (32) on a 5% commission. The
police nabbed Sethiya from Santa Cruz airport on Tuesday after he
landed in Mumbai. Sethiya’s interrogation led the cops to Nigerian
national, Cyril Theophilius (29), staying in Ambuj Wadi, Malwani. Both
Sethiya and Theophilius have been booked. Cops found transactions of
over Rs 80 lakh in the bank accounts, now frozen. Cops said they will
soon arrest four others in the case.
The Times of India, January 30, 2014
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